I like down-to-earth people.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Fear steals your joy and kills your dreams.

When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit.

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.