However, I'm older, wiser, more mature, and can deliver the rhymes in a different way. Because I guess I have a more holistic viewpoint and approach.

When I get involved, I give it my heart, I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part. But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't. It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.

Salvation of mankind is neither human effort nor desire. But God's grace of a greater mercy.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.