We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.

I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

The secret of poetry is cruelty.

I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.