If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

Sighted people, you gotta deal with them.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.