“Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.”

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”

“Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.”

“Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?”

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

“If you don't ask, you don't get.”

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

“Time is long but life is short.”

“Minds ripen at very different ages.”

“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.”

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