Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

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.

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

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.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?