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.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

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.