If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.

I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.