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Music was very influential on me as a kid.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.

Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.

Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.

It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.