When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches.

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

I know country people who have The Carnival.

When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.

I want to see the violence in Haiti stopped. Innocent people, innocent children are getting hurt and killed every day.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.