I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

If all you're doing is grinding for the man, it's going to burden you. Once you say, 'Hey, I'm grinding for the man, but I'm putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,' you're working for you.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

When the time is right, I'll start making investments and try to flip my money.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.