“I don’t listen to a lot of radio today. It’s not really music to me.”

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

The radios are going to dictate. That’s another fight. That’s another story there. I wish they just let it be.

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

There’s a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we’re doin’, but we got no mercy for ’em.

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

Not that we’re complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It’s getting very dull now.

A lot of the time I’m working with people who are older than me.

There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?