I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.