Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.