I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.

He'd fantasized about her too? "You don't have to fantasize anymore, " she murmured...

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Find things that shine and move toward them.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.