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Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.

If you're doing black music, you should have a core understanding of where that comes from, and the fundamentals - so you're not some bozo thinking you're doing something new.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.