Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that were necessary and talked about it as important have been made, like, people go to school where they want to go. They work for equal pay, they work for - they can go school and have an equal shot at a job.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, like 'Winter in America' and 'Secrets' and when there weren't a whole lot of people in the studios.

I was a piano player before I was a poet.