You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of that. The style and what I fed is just me. I never worked at it. It just happened.

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

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

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

I do not believe in mixing of the races. You can quote me. I don't believe in it, and I never have. I've never changed. I've never changed my hair. I've never changed my color, I have always been proud of myself, and my fans are proud of me for remaining the way I've always been. I married a white man one time, but he was a creep