It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
“If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.”
“I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.”