Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.