You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you’re letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.
I just live my life and try to be present. When I’m present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn’t come from me, it’s out there.
I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
They think I’m being serious when actually I’m a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I’m constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.
I enjoy what people at the concert give me and I can’t do it without them, so it’s really an exchange of energy that snowballs back and forth and becomes something that’s very satisfying and very magical.
I’m half Jewish, I’m half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It’s like, What is he doing?
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It’s a reality.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.
When you see a close person you know pass in front of your eyes, it’s hard core. After all that, I just wanted to enjoy every day. That was my goal. And to give thanks and to live fully.
We’ve always just gotten up there and played. We don’t have any dancers, we don’t have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
It’s very important to vote. People died for this right.
When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.
When it comes to acting, it’s about creating a character and bringing forth a director’s vision. It’s a weird feeling, because with acting, it’s just not about me. I love being in that position, because with the music, it’s always about me.
I always read the Capitol as f – ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
It’s like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that’s just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.