for once unafraid i can go where life leads me and somehow i know i ll be strong right for what my heart used to dream of long before i knew larry: we ll be right back. book a hotel with name your own price and if you can find a lower published price anywhere else we ll match it and pay you $25. book now and save up to 60% on hotels. only at priceline.
it s a great song. i think part of a great song is that you re able to do various interpretations of that song. larry: yeah. and so that song done like that, to me it felt like what i could relate to at 17, 18 years old. larry: play us to the break. we ve got to go to break here. be my tunesmith. you ll sing with me? come on, let s go. for once in my life i have someone who needs me someone i ve needed so long for once unafraid i can go where life leads me and somehow i know i ll be strong right for what my heart used to dream of long before i knew
so i think the blessing is that i have been able to write songs that have created so many different emotions at different times that i can connect to. larry: do you remember where the like i just called to say i love you. where the inspiration came from? i think the idea of the story came from really the the spirit of, you know, how love is something that s for all seasons, whether that be a holiday or not a holiday or just being able to express that place anytime. love is always something that can be expressed. and then for years i just had the da, da, da, da da, da, da, da da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da, da, da, da da, da, da, da da, da, da, da, da, da i just called to say i love you i just called to say how much i care larry: does the lyric come to
condition larry: did you see some light? i think retrolental fibroplasia. that s what it s called. and it happened from the temperature of the having too much oxygen. and many kids that were born in the 50s before the doctor discovered that, you know, there was another way to do it, became blind. do you have brothers and sisters? i have now five or four brothers and one sister. i lost a brother a few years ago. larry: they were all sighted? yes. larry: how did your parents deal what did your father do? my father really was not the dominant person who raised the family. it was my mother who raised the family.
larry: you were always you ain t so little anymore. you were once little stevie wonder, right? never little. big in spirit. small in size. grow to kind of match my spirit. larry: did the harmonica come naturally to you, too? it was harmonica was something that obviously growing up in detroit you d hear the different harmonica players come and playing the blues as they re walking down the streets. when i was off for the christmas holiday season, an uncle gave me a harmonica, chromatic harmonica. and obviously, i didn t know what to got button. i said what is this for? so it s like but then i figured for me playing the harmonica after a while was like the saxophone to me. so it was like