I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

There's a common threat facing all of us - Christians, Jews, and Muslims - and that is the Antichrist. It's a very deep subject, and it's a horrendous thing to contemplate. Someone will appear who is, in fact, the opposite of what he appears to be. Some people will believe in him, and that's really frightening. In Islam, there's a belief that Jesus will return to destroy the Antichrist, which is something many people don't know about the Islamic faith.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.