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

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.

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.

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.

Disrespect is real stuff.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.