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.

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

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

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

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.

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.