I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

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

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.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.