I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat..

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf..

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day..

You can't be different if you look at it. Being gifted is different. I had that in my piano playing. I'm very thankful for that. I'm very aware of th….

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones..

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember..

Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the v….

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought..

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classi….

Many times I feel different like a different person..

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone..

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality..

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?.

Music is the center of my life..

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel ….

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going..

Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to it than anything else in the world, if you are goin….

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage..

I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until ….

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of..

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it..