I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.

I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.