Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

I think you create your own hipness.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I'm not angry at anyone.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.