I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.
The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished
The music is everything to me.
I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say.
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 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.