I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

I really like your playing

I did my time in the jail of your arms