If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.
I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
If I love a song, I make it mine.
America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.
There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.
I like to work spontaneously.
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.
My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.
In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
It sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dimeI had a manager once say to me, You know you're worth more money dead than alive.
One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out
I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.
