I just wish I could understand my father.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

[about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

Don't you believe what you read.