Stevie Wonder: 'I'll keep playing as long as I breathe'

"I love doing what I'm doing. An artist never stops drawing. As long as you can imagine is as long as you are going to be creative."

The star also confirmed he was still working on a new album, titled Through The Eyes Of Wonder, which he first discussed in 2008.

The project has previously been described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man.

It would be his first studio album since 2005's A Time To Love; extending a recording career that started in 1962, when he was just 11 years old.

Wonder spoke to Sidetracked presenter Annie Macmanus, the day before he headlined the BST festival in London's Hyde Park - playing a two-and-a-half hour set that encompassed his biggest hits, from Superstition and Isn't She Lovely to You Are The Sunshine Of My Life and I Wish.

Most of the set was drawn from the 1970s purple patch when he won the Grammy Award for best album three times in a row, for Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs In The Key Of Life.

Wonder told Macmanus that he never tired of revisiting those records.

"Songs are like children, they're with you forever," he said. "They are statement from the spirit within you.

"And singing those songs is like me taking another breath."

Earlier this month, during a concert in Cardiff, the musician addressed a long-standing conspiracy theory that he is not actually blind.

"You know there have been rumours about me seeing and all that?" he told the audience, "But seriously, you know the truth."

"Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind," he told fans.

Calling his disability a gift, Wonder continued: "Now, that was a blessing because it's allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight."

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