Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

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