There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I think you create your own hipness.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.