Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

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.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

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 don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.