Funk, Gospel, Blues Is All Out Of

I Demand Perfection In What I Do, And I Practice Very Hard Before I Give A Concert-sometimes Three To Six Hours A Day.

Life Is Short. People Are Not Easy To Know. They're Not Easy To Know, So If You Don't Tell Them How You Feel, You're Not Going To Get Anywhere, I Feel.

Anything Human Can Be Felt Through Music, Which Means That There Is No Limit To The Creating That Can Be Done With Music. You Can Take The Same Phrase From Any Song And Cut It Up So Many Different Ways - It's Infinite. It's Like God... You Know?

The Pressure Of Show Business Is On All The Time And Show Business Is A Fickle Business. Whatever Is Popular Now - That's All That Counts. I Have To Constantly Re-identify Myself To Myself, Reactivate My Own Standards, My Own Convictions About What I'm Doing And Why.

What Kept Me Sane Was Knowing That Things Would Change, And It Was A Question Of Keeping Myself Together Until They Did.