"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."

"My Dad is my hero."

"There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever."

"It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most."

"Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone."

"At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."

"I want to be alone."