My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.