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I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.