You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy.

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.