Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

To be young, gifted and black!

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

I was reared in the church from the age of three. I've played piano since I was three. I performed at revivals and for my people around North Carolina for several years. People around town collected money to send me to school.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

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