To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

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.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

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