It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.