I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

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.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.

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