"My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself."
"I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horn, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they have been holding me up for quite a long time."
"I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that."
"Since we are civilized human beings, we have been given the ultimate prize...that is the ability to speak so there is nothing too great that cannot be solved by talking it out."
"...what is the world coming to, everybody knows when men cannot be friends their quarrel often ends where some have to die, let the sun shine through..."