I love 'Game of Thrones.' That's my favorite.

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.

Love has no ad hoc principle

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

Long as I live Long as I breathe With every heartbeat I'll need you near me

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Now I have close to a million followers on Twitter, which is crazy because I don't even know how to spell. But it definitely forces me to think more about the "we" factor.