The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
Art is a continuum.
If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.
Nobody really cares about what other people think anymore; they're all about themselves.
I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.
I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don't talk about it.
I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
