I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Music is the center of my life.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

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

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.