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.

I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Gun violence is real. People don't come back.