I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.