“When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, ...” — Elliott Yamin Quote

“When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.”

“I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.”

“Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.”

“I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.”

“I'm a hip hop dude who loves scoring for film.”

“Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of my literary heroes. This distresses many of my female, queer, and trans friends: Torrey, you have every woman writer in the world available to admire, but you won't shut up about a tall, handsome Nordic-dad dude who spends five pages explaining how to turn on a stove? Guilty.”