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.

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

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

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.

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.