I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.