I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

You never know where a blessing can come from.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

I'm from Boston, and I'm hard-headed, opinionated and a good arguer.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.