How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

To be young, gifted and black!

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

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.