I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Surround yourself with friends who only call you a superstar

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has ‘adjusted everywhere’.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.

To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.