I Was The Most Subtle Person In

Greatness Occurs When Your Children Love You, When Your Critics Respect You And When You Have Peace Of Mind.

China's Got A Billion People And A Hit Record Over There Is A Million Records. You Know That Ain't Right.

My Brother Died Of Cancer Two Years Ago (1998), Renal Cell Carcinoma. He Was My Only Real Brother And I Didn't Know What To Do. I'd Never Been So Desperate In My Life.

Benny [carter] Opened The Eyes Of A Lot Of Producers And Studios, So That They Could Understand That You Could Go To Blacks For Other Things Outside Of Blues And Barbecue. He's A Total Musician. He Was The Pioneer, He Was The Foundation. He Made It Possible For That Doubt To Be Taken Away.

When I Was About Five Or Seven Years Old My Mother Was Placed In A Mental Institution And So We Were With Our Father Who Worked Very Hard, And We Had To Figure A Lot Of Things Out.