I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff

I don't remember feeling love.

I never felt like I had a mother.

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

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Eight kids and a stepmother, and I just wanted to be out of there and so when I got a scholarship from Boston to the Schillinger House, which is now the Berklee School of Music, I couldn't wait to get out of there.