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

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

If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.

The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.

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.

Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.