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

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!

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

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

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

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

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.