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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.