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

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

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.

Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

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.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.