People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.