"I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two."

"A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity."

"I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that."

"I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through."

"In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that."

"I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&ampB, and the good classic rock."

"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."