If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

Who says soul has only one colour?

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.