I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

Being a world traveler, I'm touched and moved by everything that happens, especially to children. It gets me emotionally sick and I go through a lot of pain when I see that type of pain. I can't pretend as if I don't see it. It affects me very much.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I think of myself as a song-and-dance man.