There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

We have to be respectful to one another.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.