You know sometimes words have two meanings.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.