When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

I've never been married, and I have no regrets about not starting my own family. I come from a large one, so there are so many people around all the time. I've been very happy, but I've never gotten married. That's about the size of it. I would have been a good father because I've been a father to my brothers' and sisters' children.