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I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.

I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.