I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see it.
I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.
It’s my new single – please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.
In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal’s office down the hall.
Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.
Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?
I’m believing that miracles and blessings still exist...
I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.
You’ve got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you’re passed that 21 thing and it’s a high point, a high peak, in life where you’re old enough to say what you have discovered, but you’re still open to discovering more.
Sometimes I’m very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that’s always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.
When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you’re a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you’re producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
I never imagined I’d meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, “You know, your singing’s okay, but I like your harmonica playing better.”
Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that’s why I really am not really for war. I really am not.
We’re stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we’re more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.
I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.
I’ve always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we’ve got to fix them.
People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you’re able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.