There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

We were raised with the idea that we had limitless chances and we got very shocked to learn that wasn't the case.