Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.