Quotes By Stevie Wonder

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.

Time is long but life is short.

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

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

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

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

Let us come together before we're annihilated.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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