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Love is one of my main inspirations.

I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.

I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

There’s a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I’ve moved away from that.

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that’s what we face when we’re dealing with improvisation.

If my life was a song the title would be ‘Naima’.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don’t understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It’s because that is what we like doing.