If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

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.

In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.