Like all soul singers I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song it belongs to the world and the way people perceive it it's cool.
Yes I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my...
I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band...
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't...
Like all soul singers I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would...
I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had...
Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete...
I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta...
I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie but it was cool.
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought 'This guy is very cool.'...
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool...
I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or...
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them...
I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up oh my God it just...
The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting...