Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.