You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

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

Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are going to be true to yourself. And if you don't do it - and you are an artist - it punishes you.

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

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.