I Try To Swim Every Damn Day

It's A New Dawn, It's A New Day...and I'm Feeling Good.

Through Music You Can Become Sad, Joyful, Loving, You Can Learn. You Can Learn Mathematics, Touch, Pacing... Oh My God! Ooh... Wow... You Can See Colors Through Music. Anything!

Music Is An Art And Art Has Its Own Rules. And One Of Them Is That You Must Pay More Attention To It Than Anything Else In The World, If You Are Going To Be True To Yourself. And If You Don't Do It - And You Are An Artist - It Punishes You.

Everything That Happened To Me As A Child Involved Music. It Was Part Of Everyday Life, As Automatic As Breathing.

When I Was Studying... There Weren't Any Black Concert Pianists. My Choices Were Intuitive, And I Had The Technique To Do It. People Have Heard My Music And Heard The Classic In It, So I Have Become Known As A Black Classical Pianist.