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Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.

I've organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people's problems.

When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.