It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

When I'm making my music, I'm writing it, I'm producing it, I'm playing all the instruments, I'm performing. It's my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.