What we (U. S. ) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.