A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.