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

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

I don't like to go to strange places.

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me down. And it took me about six months to realize it was because I was black. I never really got over that jolt of racism at the time.

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.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.