A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

I come over here and a lot of people are like, "What's with the new hair?" I'm like, "Y'all must not have been looking - every album, I change."

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

I'd like to dividemyself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flowerof every cherry tree.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

Systems die; instincts remain.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.