Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

Dave Guy, the trumpet player, is an incredible musician. He came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of "Sign, Seal, Deliver" for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that sonic. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.

So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.