“I never wanted to be famous; I only wanted to be great.”

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

“Goodbye don't mean gone.”

“Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”

“Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.”

“Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.”