A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I'm not a jazz singer.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Pride would have destroyed me. But i cheated on pride. if i could cheat on pride then i could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi

Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious

The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.

I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close. So I think the Vimeo thing, because it's pay to download, that helps

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?