We are the world, we are the children.

[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.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.