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

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

God looks out for fools and babies.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

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