'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

Who made you the center of the universe?

Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people

Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!