I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Nature is a series of murders.

Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.