You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.