I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

The history of the movement reveals that Negro-white alliances have played a powerfully constructive role, especially in recent years. While Negro initiative, courage and imagination precipitated the Birmingham and Selma confrontations and revealed the harrowing injustice of segregated life, the organized strength of Negroes alone would have been insufficient to move Congress and the administration without the weight of the aroused conscience of white America.

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.