Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

I voted, always vote. It's very important to me. My kids, I take them with me since they were little, so they realize it's a responsibility.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.