I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones.

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

Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

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.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

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

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.