My genes tie me to those that despised me.

Nowadays I embrace it all/Beautiful ideals and amazing flaws.

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

A life of prayer is a praise of being.

A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.