This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

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

There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'