My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

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.

As much as I've been blessed to do, this is for me when I want to do what I really want to do as far as helping people. Obviously helping people with disabilities, I want - my desire is to in my lifetime be a very integral part of getting this country and the world completely accessible to everyone with any disability. There should be nowhere that we can't go, and there should be nothing that we can't do. Considering that we have the disability, whichever one it might be, we will be so on point with being able to do that we need little to no assistance.

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

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 believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

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.