Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

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.

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.

The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.