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

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.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

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.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

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.