Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

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

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.

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

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

I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else's. That's always been my dream.