People Are Not The Best Because They

It's A Different World Now: Stars Come And Go Quickly, And There Are So Many Of Them. I Read A Statistic That All The Record Companies Combined Used To Put Out Around 3,000 Albums In A Year. Now They Put Out Something Like 30,000!

One Of My First Role Models Was Eugene Lang, A Wealthy Businessman Who Went Back To His Elementary School In East Harlem And Addressed The Sixth-grade Class. He Looked Out At That Sea Of Faces And Said, "if Any Of You Wants To Go To College, I Will Pay For It." When I Read That, I Burst Into Tears. It Was So Generous And So Basic. Not Fluffy. I Can't Understand Why We Scrimp On Education And Shortchange Our Kids. Why Would The Citizenry Do That To The People Who Are Going To Inherit Its Republic?

We Are All Part Of The Ecosystem.

I Read A Comment That Made Me Think I Should Stop Singing For A While. And I Didn't Want To Stop Singing, Because It Was The Only Thing I Loved. At First I Thought, "maybe I'll Get Better And Eventually Please The Person Who Wrote About My Singing." But Then I Thought, "i Probably Will Never Please This Person. I Should Just Do What Pleases Me."

Just Because People Don't Meet You Doesn't Mean They're Not Out There Breaking Their Asses Trying To Get Around.