Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

I have a big heart and a small brain.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Women are always beautiful.

I've got loads of ideas. I just have no idea what to do with those ideas

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.

I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.