If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I'm using more energy than ever.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Àlways remember to make it a great day.

No bird in a cage has ever come to know what the mountain winds feel like, by staring at the free flying birds, wishing that they would fall from the sky!

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.