The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

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.

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.