“Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.”

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It’s the ability to love each other. That’s the only solution I see.

My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me. I don’t fight the universe.

Love is more than one thing.

I’ve never read one book about my father.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn’t a snob. He wasn’t a purist.

Some of my songs I don’t do on tour because they don’t work well live.

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that’s genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Success to me does not mean money.

There’s a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don’t be blind

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

Children are the world’s future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Free spirits have to soar. True Religion.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

We should never forget the native families of this land past and, present whose story sometimes gets lost in modern times.

Children are wonderful people.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.

Government is essentially immoral.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil’ Kim tribute

For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.