I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.