I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

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