But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I think you create your own hipness.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.