Horns always influenced me more than voices.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
I'm influenced by all types of music.
Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.
For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.