What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

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

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

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

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.

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.