Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Problems have solutions.

Music at its essence is what gives us memories.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.