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.

I'm using more energy than ever.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.