Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

There is no art without intention.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.