In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.