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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.

How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

It's a great thing if you're a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it's great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they're doing.

A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel a strong desire in any way that I can to help do that for other kids.

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.

My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.

I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

Back in the day, I was afraid to speak out. When I get music behind me, it feels like I can soothe the hurt and put it in vocals and say it to the room the way I feel it.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

I make music... and it helps me figure out life.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

When I'm stressed or I have some things I have to get off my mind, I go to the canvas and I paint.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.