Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

No one knows anything for sure.

I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind