Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

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.

I do feel that there's a need to have some love out there,

I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the 27th.

I know he needed every bit of the stretch,

I do feel that there's a need to have some love out there,

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.

You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

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."

If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

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.

The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.

Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

Call up, ring once, hang up the phone to let me know you made it home. Don't want nothing to be wrong with my part time lover.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

I see the light in your smile.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

Problems have solutions.

One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone...

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.

My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow My love smiles to me each morning Says she'll never leave me And I know it's so

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

The Lord that I serve says the impossible is unacceptable.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

It's my new single - please buy it so we can get Christmas gifts for the kids this year.