stories of encouragement, but first, a clip of glorious singing the song "i will sur vive" at a mandellacelebration. though i tried hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart and i spent so many nights crying for myself and i used to cry, but now i hold my head up high still in love with you i am saving all my love and for someone who is loving me ♪ tavis: do you know how many countries you have performed that song in? >> 79. amazing to me, maybe not to you, this song has its self survived but has thrived all of these years. what do you make of it? >> just that people are always going through situations in their lives that they think are insurmountable and they hope they will survive. tavis: for those who have never heard the story, and i have heard it but want to hear it again, how this song came to be and the condition when you recorded the song. take me back. >> well, i did a show in new york at the beacon theater and fell on stage and woke up the next morning paralyzed from the waist down, went in the hospital the next day for surgery on my spine. while i was there -- actually, just