The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

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

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

I played classical as a kid.