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.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

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.

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

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.