Success is measured not just in profit, but in positive impact.

Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

I believe in the power of music to bring people together.