There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.