I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the most.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.