My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful for the success of 'Take Me to the Alley.' The chart position it's reached around the world is very exciting, and its success is an example of the acceptance of my music. I am very thankful. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be in circles, and I'll say I'm a jazz singer, and they have no idea what that means. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Because I am away so much, I try to establish home in people, rather than places. For example, wherever I get together with my… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Nat King Cole's lyrics were speaking to me, almost like fatherly advice, when I was listening to him alongside the console stereo player. So… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the courage to pursue music as a career on her deathbed. She became very ill when I was 21. I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I like to absorb the atmosphere and explore wherever I'm working or visiting, so I can't say there's any type of place I don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
It's been some surreal moments, you know from performing at Buckingham Palace to having dinner with Stevie Wonder, it's been an amazing ride. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
When there's an imbalance in terms of what people get to hear, then that's negative. Then blues, jazz, it will die. — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
My part of Brooklyn has always been a very warm neighbourhood, even before I had anything going on in the music industry. When I… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
