The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.