First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.

I am not a normal man.

No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

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.