Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

I truly believe I have the most wonderful fans in the world.

This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."