I honestly don’t remember how I wrote or did the songs. Or the sessions. They all become very much a blur. And each album is like that. It may be that there are different locations, it may take longer, shorter, or whatever, but it’s always something that just happened.
The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.
There’s certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
Where I’m at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m looking at the big picture.
Love is the most powerful energy there is.
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It’s all about me – as it should be.
We weren’t put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
The idea of having to conform to someone else’s ideal is unacceptable. I’m gonna be me. And if I can’t be me, then I’d rather not do it.
We have so many distractions. We’re losing the family unit. We’re losing the one-on-one. We’re becoming extremely narcissistic. And we have to be careful about that. There’s a lot to deal with out there.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that’s beautiful.
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
Being free is a state of mind.
If you look at the guys in the ’70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren’t singing about it.
I’m definitely happy with everything I’ve done. I stand behind it. You’ll always be saying, “Well, I could change that, or I would do that differently.” But you have to let it be what it is.
Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can’t put their finger on me.
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don’t perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.