The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

I like to have fun. I'm definitely sexually liberated and all that good stuff.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with an "I" or an "a," some people can sing and they can sang. I think I can "sang" more than anything. I'm not a formal singer and I'm an MC, but it's secondary to the second nature of just melody. You know but ultimately I'm a writer and I do soul music. Whether it's in song form or rhyme scheme, it's soul.