That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
If I have another child, I doubt I'll get married again. I don't think men particularly want to be with me.
Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
I'm very picky when it comes to men. I come across a man who I'm really attracted to about once every five years.
I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
