I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

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

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

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

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

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

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.