"I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better."

"We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by."

"Peace is a conscious choice."

"I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences."

"I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can."

"I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that."

"We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs."