I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are out there listening to music and consuming music, I want them to enjoy it and love it. And so that's more important to me than Grammys.

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.