I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
I am particular about the seating of the audience – also about how much money they pay – but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?
I don’t like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.
It’s time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
I don’t like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
Once I understood Bach’s music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
Music is a gift and a burden I’ve had since I can remember who I was.
I look forward to doing my own show, not someone else’s. That’s always been my dream.
I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
I don’t like to go to strange places.
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I’m trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.
Desegregation is a joke.
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I’m not going.
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
Since I was three I’ve been playing the piano. I’ve been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl’s talk.