I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

Love is a practice. It’s up to you to choose it, prioritize it and commit to it.

We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.

You're mine, Pagan Moore. You will always be mine.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.