You never know where a blessing can come from.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

I dont plan on stopping anytime soon.

My first album came out in 1979.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Try square dancing-at least long enough to no longer feel silly and begin to have fun.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.