Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.