The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.

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.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

Things that I'm afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that's what it's always about.

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it's because they want to heal something inside of themselves.

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.