Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

It's a good time for black people to be alive.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.