My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.