Singer Luther Vandross has told Oprah Winfrey he plans to carry on recording despite still recovering from the stroke he suffered last year. Giving his first interview since the stroke, he quipped: "I'll be singing at 80."
Asked about how he felt about his illness, he told Oprah: "I was fit to be tied. It was a chore, coming back from the stroke. I was very depressed."
On the diabetes that caused the stroke, and his relative ambivalence to his condition over the years, Vandross continues: "It was something that I did, and I wish I hadn't. Diabetes is a very nifty, crafty disease. It seems like a soft disease at first. It's anything but. It's anything except that. What it does is it incapacitates you."