Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

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.

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

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.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

I have a love/pain relationship with her. Love that caused more pain and pain that changed me.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

My mom doesn't post on Facebook, but she'll tell anyone within about the first five minutes of meeting them about my sister and I, in whatever way she can.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Baking is too precise for me. I cook with a pinch of this or that.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.