I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So in this quickening light, with the dawn of each new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer struggle. Let us ever become who we most want to be. As we begin to be who we truly are, the world will be a better place.

Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.