Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?

If you don't ask, you don't get.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

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.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?