Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
I'm just human, I have faults like anyone
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?
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.