With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to