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
