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

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.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Music is the center of my life.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.