San Francisco Chronicle: You've worked with everyone--Bob Marley, The Clash, Robert Palmer. But you're the only one still around. Perry: I am blessed with words. In the beginning, (there were) words flying around on wings like angels until the worlds decided to become a god and call themselves the god of words and the god of sounds and the god of power. i have visible power and invisible power--visible when I make contact with man and invisible when not making contact with man and the whirlwind. Chronicle: That makes a lot of sense.