I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.