1991 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Speech

"Well," he said, "my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this, he did say son, he said," there was a long pause, nervous laughter from the crowd, "he say, you know its possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you and if that happens, God will belive in your abililty to mend your ways"

Then he walked off.

Email: fwb@sydney2000.net