It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.