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 don't like to go to strange places.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.