In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

Some friends, you only see them when the sun shines.. My fans sustained me even in dark days. I owe them everything.

I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.

I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

[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.

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music.