I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

Music is like the soul of the planet.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.