I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.