In General People Put Too Much Faith

Essentially, I'm A Very Real Person; Good And Bad. And The Public Image Is One Of Being Very Good, I Suppose. But One Of The Reasons I'm Attracted To People Like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, To Pacifism, Is Because Naturally, I'm The Guy That Would Not Turn The Other Cheek - But, When People See You're Attracted To That, They Think You Are That.

Africa Is A Continent In Flames. And Deep Down, If We Really Accepted That Africans Were Equal To Us, We Would All Do More To Put The Fire Out. We're Standing Around With Watering Cans, When What We Really Need Is The Fire Brigade.

When Those People Get Up At The Grammys And Say, "i Thank God", I Always Imagine God Going, "oh, Don't, Please Don't Thank Me For That One. Please, Oh, That's An Awful One! Don't Thank Me For That - That's A Piece Of Crap !"

I Wish To Begin Again On A Daily Basis. To Be Born Again Every Day Is Something That I Try To Do. And I'm Deadly Serious About That.

You Don't Become An 'artist' Unless You've Got Something Missing Somewhere. Blaise Pascal Called It A God-shaped Hole. Everyone's Got One But Some Are Blacker And Wider Than Others. It's A Feeling Of Being Abandoned,cut Adrift In Space And Time-sometimes Following The Loss Of A Loved One. You Can Never Completely Fill That Hole-you Can Try With Songs,family,faith And By Living A Full Life...but When Things Are Silent, You Can Still Hear The Hissing Of What's Missing.