Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

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

When love brings so much joy, why must it bring so much pain?

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

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.