I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

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

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.