Two eggs do not an omelette make
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.
I'm not a jazz singer.
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough
No one gets to their heaven without a fight. . .
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt.