Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

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

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.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.