Quotes By Stevie Wonder

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

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.

I've had threats.

Time is long but life is short.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

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.

I am not a normal man.

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

If you don't ask, you don't get.

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

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

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.

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

I am all for stem cell research.

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.