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My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.