You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

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.

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.