I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

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

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.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

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

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.