I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

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.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

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