The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

I don't care how small the game. I want to win.

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

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.