I stroke it to the East, and I stroke it to the West, and I stroke it to the woman that I love best. I be strokin'.
I'm so proud of my son for being so funny!
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself.
I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.
Nothing is impossible. It can be downright difficult, but not impossible.
Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.
My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.
I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U. S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.