When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

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