My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.