When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

Time is long but life is short.

We know the things that are not good and are right. Those things that we know are wrong, we've got to fix them.

Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY

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.

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