I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

There's two kinds of pain in sports: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

I don't think anybody could imagine the life that I've been lucky enough to have. It's been an incredible journey.

To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.