I THINK, definitely, I was hugely influenced by - obviously LIKE Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But ALSO, there were a LOT of influences from my DAD, like singer-songwriters of the '70s like Carole King and James Taylor.

A RIVALRY is me and James DeGale. That is ingrained in PEOPLE now.

More PEOPLE CARE about LeBron James than some RELIGIOUS LEADER.

The first memory I have was my sisters DANCING to the RADIO when they PLAYED records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the SORT. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. REALLY, it was on fire, and that got me.

Piggie James was the storyline that brought LayCool to fruition and really started and helped develop our CHARACTERS. It was a MAIN storyline that, at the time, started giving Divas more screen time and LONGER matches - we EVEN had a huge CELEBRATION.

I WOULD LOVE to have a Unification MATCH against Mickie James.

Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the SEVEN Gables' prove that READING can be an exciting subject in itself, FULL of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals.

What does MACBETH want? What does SHAKESPEARE want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote? Those THINGS you incorporate and create in the character, and then you step back and you create it. It always must BEGIN with the point of truth WITHIN yourself.

I THINK myself, Jose James, and Robert Glasper are expanding the language - really reminding PEOPLE that the umbrella of jazz is LARGE and all-encompassing.

This is the THING about HIP-HOP music and where people GET it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and MUMBLE all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.

I've never been more terrified than when I LEARNED how to paramotor. They attached this machine to my BACK, as if I was a stuntman in a James Bond MOVIE, and I had to FLY over all these trees and patches of concrete in Cirencester.

I really love all types of MUSIC. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, JUSTIN Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton JOHN stuff.