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

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?

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

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.

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.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

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.