I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

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

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

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!

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.

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

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