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

I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

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