Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.