Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.