I don't like to go to strange places.

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.