It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

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

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

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

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.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.