I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Don't go backwards - you've already been there.
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.
If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.