I Demand Perfection In What I Do,

I Do Love To Sing Jacques Brel Songs, Intensely. I Get Terribly Excited, Just By Reading A Couple Of Lines In Any One Of His Songs.

To Most White People, Jazz Means Black And Jazz Means Dirt, And That's Not What I Play. I Play Black Classical Music.

I Feel What They Feel. And People Who Listen To Me Know That, And It Makes Them Feel Like They're Not Alone.

You Can't Help It. An Artist's Duty, As Far As I'm Concerned, Is To Reflect The Times.

The Worst Thing About That Kind Of Prejudice... Is That While You Feel Hurt And Angry And All The Rest Of It, It Feeds You Self-doubt. You Start Thinking, Perhaps I Am Not Good Enough.