Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith and life becomes more secure more fraught with action richer in achievement and experience.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Compassion begins with attention.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.