Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You're talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.