I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

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.

For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.