It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

In South Africa, to be poor and black was normal, to be poor and white was a tragedy.