Time is long but life is short.

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

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.

People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

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

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

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.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it -- and thank God.

In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

My love lives outside my window

Clouds burst to give water

So her love can grow

My love smiles to me each morning

Says she'll never leave me

And I know it's so.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.