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I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately ... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.

On singing in the swimming pool: If I can move the water, I can move the people.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song.

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.