Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.