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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

I view myself as a male artist.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

I've always been an old soul.