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

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

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

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

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.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!