Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

I don't believe in writing people off.

Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down.

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

Somethings are simply better left the way they are.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven's children, Satan's temptations lose power in your life.