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My heart and soul is still music.

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

Soul music is timeless.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, which has probably informed the way that I sing on my tracks.

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries. I think there are some songs that are close to immortal. They will last longer than we will in this lifetime.

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

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