Stevie Quotes

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him 'he can't see you'.