I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It keeps me alive. When I'm doing something alone, that is mine, I know how it is. But when I'm working with someone else, I also see the view from the other, and usually learn something new, try something different. This is very important to my happiness.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.