I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green... just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it... wanting to change this and fix that.

There's a certain missing feeling, a void out there that I'm more than happy to fill. Without criticizing what's out there now, I'm just going to do El DeBarge.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.