I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.