I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

I dont see gold as a player in a healthy economy.

Sometimes girls act all TNT Network because they know drama. That's when guys get all TBS around you because we think it's very funny.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.