I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

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.

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

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.