Who says soul has only one colour?

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

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

I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it kind of, it's this way in lots of different aspects of life. You know, people fight for attention. It's competitive. So they need to be the one that stands out.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.