Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.