What's missing from pop music is danger.
I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.
I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
Well, my musicians are my friends.
I pride myself on working with great musicians.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.
You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.
I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.
I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.
Any business situation is restrictive.
I'm not one to get bad reviews.
The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
