To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.