My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

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.

No one knows anything for sure.

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

Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.