Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.