I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one.

I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.

A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you."

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.

There is always a point in the party where I wouldn't say I have people in the palm of my hands, but when there is a point in the evening... if you have been to any great party, you know when the whole room becomes one.

It's not easy staying relevant in the marketplace.

There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.