Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.

I love love because it comes in so many forms shapes sizes and colours. It fits everyone.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

...living the gospel of Jesus Christ is the price of-and the only way to-peace.

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.