My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
I love music and I love to dance.
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.
I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
Music can't change the world.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
Music, not sex, got me aroused.
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
The fact is that we take music very seriously.