I'm a real rebel with a cause.

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

I'm just human, I have faults like anyone

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.

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind.

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.