Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.
I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
'NME' and 'Melody Maker' were saying I was the next Lou Reed or Van Morrison. So, everyone has their own version as to when the height of my career was.
There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.
I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
I listen to Lil Wayne, and then I listen to Merle Haggard.
I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
See, I have to do my best because I am not as glamorous or as well-equipped like a Beyonce Knowles or Michael Jackson, where their band members are close to 100-150 people. They even have great equipment which is flown along with the artists. They have a budget of around $5 million pumped in to make their concerts a hit.
I'm not a Pat Benatar clone. I wish people would forget about that comparison.
Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
When G-Dragon released 'Heart Breaker', I remember it. The reactions to when that was released as opposed to 'One of a Kind' is really like heaven and hell.
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.
Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.
I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.
I don't see myself working with Lil Pump. He goes crazy though. We have two different sounds, but he goes hard.
Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
