Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Please — consider me a dream.

Never allow any level of success to steal your humility. You are not the first person to succeed on earth

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

Like music, yoga is a journey -- one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it.