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 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 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.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

May you follow the path of light.

You don’t achieve success, you attract success.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

I have no problem with G14. How can I oppose something that as far as I am concerned, does not exist?

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.