R&b Is Not A Fad; It's The

When God Loves You, What Can Be Better Than That?

I Love Producing, Writing. I Rarely Write With Other Writers Unless I Have A Real Great Respect For Them. Like Burt Bacharach, Or Carole Sager, Or Stevie Wonder. Somebody Like Smokey - Like That. Otherwise, I Choose To Write Alone.

Clark Terry Is An American Master. I Love To Listen To Him, Particularly 'mumbles.' I Was So Delighted When We Received Degrees Together, Along With Edward Kennedy, At The New England Conservatory In 1997.

I Was In My Dad's Church, His Baptist Church, And I Think The First Song I Ever Performed Was 'jesus Be A Fence Around Me.'

I've Never Recorded Anything I Didn't Like.