I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. |
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. |
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts. |
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way. |
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape. |
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge. |
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments. |
I talk by playing, not by words. |
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me. |
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me. |
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent. |
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be. |
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton. |
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. |
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. |
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. |