My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

I was there not as anything that has to do with the city, City Hall, the campaign, ... I was there as I'm always there: to help my community in whichever way I can.

I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

The powerful chords that emanated from the radio heated me from the inside out, like a microwave.