I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

You never know where a blessing can come from.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

I dont plan on stopping anytime soon.

You don’t know anything, but I know even less.

Nothing is more on the nose, than sun cream.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

I know that's fun for people to talk about who are fans of the franchise, and it's fun to get to kind of have my own feelings about that as well.

It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?