I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Money's only important when you don't have any.