Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.