I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

Without passion, the earth will be full of hollow bodies devoid of love, relationship, religion, art, science and technology

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?