You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

Disrespect is real stuff.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

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.

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.

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.