I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.

We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.

There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.