Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

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

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

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.

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.