The way the world is right now, we need more love,

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.

I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all [gay people are confused]. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.

I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from "A Time To Love" are the most appropriate for the statement I wanted to make...The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do...It is a different kind of lyric; it's very picturesque. I can see everything that I'm writing, I can visualize all those things happening.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

You can't hear me? Read my lips!

A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.

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.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

You should definitely choose this as a profession.

We need to have more respect for each other, ... Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle.

I know there are thousands of images of me.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

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.

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.

"He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually."

"What is obscenity? And to whom?"

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."

"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.