You are equally important to me, and I love you all.

Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.