I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

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.

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

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.