People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Rock music is niche.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.