I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

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.

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way!

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

My ears are huge. If there's ever a problem with a plane I'm on, they could just put me on the wing and I'll land the sucker.