I Don't Like To Go To Strange

The Pressure Of Show Business Is On All The Time And Show Business Is A Fickle Business. Whatever Is Popular Now - That's All That Counts. I Have To Constantly Re-identify Myself To Myself, Reactivate My Own Standards, My Own Convictions About What I'm Doing And Why.

Once I Understood Bach's Music, I Wanted To Be A Concert Pianist. Bach Made Me Dedicate My Life To Music, And It Was That Teacher Who Introduced Me To His World.

I Was Reared In The Church From The Age Of Three. I've Played Piano Since I Was Three. I Performed At Revivals And For My People Around North Carolina For Several Years. People Around Town Collected Money To Send Me To School.

I Demand Perfection In What I Do, And I Practice Very Hard Before I Give A Concert-sometimes Three To Six Hours A Day.

If I Want To Take A Particular Form Of Blues Somewhere Else I Have The Equipment To Do It But I Never Even Thought Of It.