I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing