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.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.

I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.