Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.