When I do listen to music a lot of times I listen to old school music, I'm talking about Earth, Wind & Fire, I'm talking about the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays. It just eases my mind.
Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.
I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic.
I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs.
I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls.
Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music.
I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.
My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.
I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke.
I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.
I still listen to Ginuwine, man. I can still listen to Donell Jones.
I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.
I don't use old music.
My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.
I'm big fan of soulful music - classic rock with a folk-ish twist.
Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.
I just listen to a lot of stuff. Sometimes I play music; a lot of times, it will be stuff from back in the day. Sometimes I scan through the radio. Not the average stations that play the everyday thing.
It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
My pop culture ended somewhere north of Elvis but not too far.
