If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for everyone. We have to follow his example so we have to play music for everyone too. We have a message, and in order for our message to reach the people, we have to play.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.