Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

The black church will accept anybody.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.