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 Circles 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… — Gregory Porter Brother 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… — Gregory Porter Advice 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 Father 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… — Gregory Porter Courage 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… — Gregory Porter Atmosphere 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… — Gregory Porter Amazing 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… — Gregory Porter Blues 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,… — Gregory Porter About 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… — Gregory Porter Experience 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 Blues 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.… — Gregory Porter Coffee Copy Share Image
'Take Me to the Alley' is about trying to uplift the lives of people who have been afflicted, maybe the homeless or… — Gregory Porter Homeless Copy Share Image
I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing. — Gregory Porter Blues Copy Share Image
I was quite shy as a child. My sisters were the gang leaders, my brothers were the enforcers and I was a… — Gregory Porter Brothers Copy Share Image
Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot. — Gregory Porter Being Copy Share Image
Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there. — Gregory Porter Less Copy Share Image
My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five… — Gregory Porter Childhood Copy Share Image
I think part of my job as a songwriter is to go back in my memory and pull up those pains for… — Gregory Porter Father Copy Share Image
What a Wonderful World' is a love song to nobody and everybody. I'm thinking about songs like that in my writing with… — Gregory Porter Love Copy Share Image
I had a long-term relationship that failed. I had some health issues. When you dip down emotionally you can gather some things… — Gregory Porter Health Copy Share Image
I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis… — Gregory Porter Day Copy Share Image
There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be… — Gregory Porter Jazz Copy Share Image
The best career advice was to sing with an understanding and internalise the music - that was my mother's advice. Sing with… — Gregory Porter Advice Copy Share Image
I lose my bags all the time. Sometimes for two months. One of the worst times was when I had come from… — Gregory Porter Crazy Copy Share Image
