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 am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

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.

When somebody shows up and they believe in you, it makes all the difference.

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