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

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

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

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.