I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

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.

Desegregation is a joke.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

Many times I feel different like a different person.