I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.