"I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred."

"Love is never wrong."

"The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs."

"There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also."

"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity."

"I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer."

"I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet."

"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine."

"To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door."