We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

I was letting people dictate who should be my friends. I felt like I couldn't be friends with Madonna. And so I dissed her, even though she showed me nothing but love. I felt bad because when I went to jail, I called her and she was the only person that was willing to help me.

I knew Fred since I was 14 and was first going to the Old Town School, Fred used to work part-time in the store. Every time I wrote a song Fred would turn on his really good high-class tape recorder, reel-to-reel, and record it. So he's got recordings of me on guitar singing all my songs in his apartment long before I ever recorded for a recording company. I never found out what happened to the tapes.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.