I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge.

When you value your crew, they look after you.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.