Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

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

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

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.

I hate not giving the people what they want.