Bruno mars

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.