PEABO BRYSON

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

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

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

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

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

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

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

I'm not angry at anyone.

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

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

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.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

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

Trends don't mean very much.

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

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

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

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

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

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

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

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

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

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

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.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

I'm not angry at anyone.

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

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

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

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

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

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