And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.