The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards.

I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

The music is everything to me.