Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

I'm a southern gentleman.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?