Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.