Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.