In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.