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

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

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.