I Believe Everybody Is Spiritual

There Is Really No Spiritual Message That I'm Trying To Convey With My Music, It's Just A Personal Thing. I Really Believe That The More Personal We Get, In A Way, The More Universal The Implications.

Question: Does It Frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, That Someone Like Obama, Who Fits The Stereotype Blacks Once Labeled As An Oreo -- A Black On The Outside, A White On The Inside -- That An Oreo Should Be The Beneficiary Of The Long Civil Rights Struggle Which Jesse Jackson Spent His Lifetime Fighting For?

When The Music Arrives In My Mind, It Gives Me The Direction And The Form At The Same Time. It's Integrated Into The Music Itself.

I Find Indian Music Very Funky. I Mean It's Very Soulful, With Their Own Kind Of Blues. But It's The Only Other School On The Planet That Develops Improvisation To The High Degree That You Find In Jazz Music. So We Have A Lot Of Common Ground.

When You Open Box After Box Of Old Comics And They're All "archie," You Have Suffered A Trauma From Which It Is Difficult To Ever Recover.