When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.