Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
I saw 'True Blood' once, and I like the jazzy feel of it and stuff.
I would like to be, like, a young jedi in training, like, do some cool stuff and have some awesome stunts, like Tom Cruise. I think that would be my dream role in 'Star Wars.'
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it.
I don't like peanut butter and jelly that much.
I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks.
I like anything Jennifer Lawrence is in. She's so beautiful.
Jennifer Lopez, she's my girl! And Shakira... I really like her.
I follow dancers like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, as they are in my zone, but when it comes to Indian dancing, I am a huge Madhuri Dixit fan.
