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I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.