As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

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

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

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

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.

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

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.