I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'