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I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always here it at old family parties, like, Gladys Knight and I'd always love it but I didn't really get to know it and respect it until I was a bit older.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I grew up listening to old soul.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I come from an era of music when it had heart and soul.

When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Bjork and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Bjork, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul there.

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.