Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.