I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.

What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.