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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

I want to be famous everywhere.

If you are on television, that one night that someone is able to see you, you're talking about millions of people in one day. That's pretty awesome because then it helps you to jumpstart your career, and if you're the one to go out there and perform, people are going to come see you because those millions saw you on the television.