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!

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

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.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.