I'm a real rebel with a cause.
When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.
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.
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
It's a good time for black people to be alive.
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.