Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.

To be young, gifted and black!

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".