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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.