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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home.