That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

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

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

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.

Desegregation is a joke.

Many times I feel different like a different person.