Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.

What tried to demolish me, I allowed to polish me.

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.

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

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.

There is no secret, you try and never stop trying. If you have to sleep all day, and get up the next day, you keep trying. If you have to take 3 years away, do it and then come back. But it's all about trying. Not everything will work, but some things will, and you have to try.