I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Alas! I thought I had only a friendship for you, but the grief I now feel convinces me, that I cannot live without you.

The light of love is life.

Great faith surfaces in great problems - have faith

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

She is Islam, and I am in Love.

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

The more of you I see, the more I'm glad I'm me