Jazz Brought This Sense Of Democracy Where

You Have To Make A Decided Effort To Not Get Seduced By The Blues.

Once You Discover That You Can, Then You Must. And It's Not Easy. You Have To Take Direct Steps. You Really Have To Count Your Blessings And You Have To Make A Decided Effort To Not Get Seduced By The Blues.

I Kind Of Knew Something Was Going On, And My Older Brothers And Sisters Were Singing Be-boppish Kinds Of Stuff In The Living Room, And I Was Listening. I Started Singing, Warmer Than A Summer Night, At Seven Or Eight Years Old.

I Don't Know Where We Got The Notion That God Wants Us To Suffer. Every Living Thing Tends Toward The Good Or We Would Have Been Gone A Long Time Ago.

Obviously Given Good Health, And A Continuing Audience And A Record Company That Allows Me To Do Music. So Given Those Things Yes, I'm Introducing Some New Music That People Haven't Really Heard Me Do In Quite This Fashion.