You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.