Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

All of us benefit when women and girls have the same opportunities as men and boys, and it's on all of us to make that a reality. Our sons have the power and the responsibility to change our culture of sexism, and I want Xavier and Hadrien, when he's a little older, to understand that deeply.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

Rap is not music, it's talking.