You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.

The only thing constant in the world is change, that's why today I take life as it comes.

If I'm not doing anything to make a change, then I'm responsible.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

You hear people sing songs about when they really can't stand anyone anymore or you hear people sing songs about when they really love someone and they really love them.

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real.