Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.
I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.
You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.
It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.
Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.