But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

Life is about choices and chances. You make a choice and take a chance.

Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.

Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.