Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.