Your thoughts are as free as any bird

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough.

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.

I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.