As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.

I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

What's love got to do with it?