Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

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 was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Tomorrow, I might be in a different mood and you wouldn't recognize my voice.