I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

I was very introverted growing up and I had small circle of friends. Any opportunity I got to rap or articulate things through rhyme or hip hop was great for me.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!