I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.