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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."

"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."

"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."

"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."

"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."

"I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear."
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"The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me."

"People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music."

"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."

"The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it."

"I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?"

"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."

"Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this."
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