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.

Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.

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.

Eating is not one of the things that I do now to deal with pain, because I don't ever want to do that. But I isolate myself, that's what I do.

In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

What is socially irresponsible, once again, is just all my opinion. But there are things that I don't think are cool.