If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.

There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.

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.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.