I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.