I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.

Let peace and beauty reign.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.