I don't remember feeling love.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.

There's power in the collective. If you don't believe me, just watch a symphony orchestra with a conductor and 120 people who are thinking about exactly the same thing at the same moment - no babies, no stock markets, no mortgages. Just 32nd notes.

Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.

I never felt like I had a mother.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.