R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".

My name might be similar, but I'd never say 'Laters, baby.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.