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.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

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

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

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.