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"As great as it is to get this award. It's really great to be recognized by a fellow musician who I hold in such high esteem and who I probably wouldn't get to play with on any other occasion," said Browne.

Songwriter-musician Nile Rodgers, who composed the anthem "We Are Family," is the founder of the We Are Family Foundation.

"We believe that we're one global family and with our help and with our great team they work on that every single day to teach the world that message," said Rodgers. "Certainly it's a song that was written with a lot of passion but it really was a song that I never know would have this kind of lifespan."

The evening was hosted by actor Rosie Perez and comedian Mo Rocca.

"I've been trying so hard to be accepted into the We Are Family Foundation but they're extremely exclusive. And every time -- I've tried to marry my way in -- I've tried to do whatever I can," joked Rocca.

Among the honorees were two friends who are religious leaders, Imam Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor James Wuye.

"We are all children of Abraham. That divinity and the Abrahamic tradition bound us together, it's a unifying factor. And we need to talk more about that and that is the sustaining factor for my relationship with my big friend Wuye here." said Ashafa.

"We differ in our spirituality, we differ in our color, we differ in certain ideas that we have, but we are one humanity," said Wuye.

Musician Steven Van Zandt has been "family" since the beginning.

"Well, we're our version of diversity, you know," he said. "I'm a Calabrese, she's a Napolitan. That's our version of Italian unity."

The evening of rock and roll raised almost $2 million to help the We Are Family Foundation.