Musician

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

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.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

I am all for stem cell research.

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

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

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

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

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

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I'm still experimenting.

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