I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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.