In music the passions enjoy themselves.

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.

My dream was to not get a day job but to sleep, wake up and do my music. I want to keep that dream forever.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.