Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

I think a good director is a good listener.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.

I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

We're human, this is our world, and I think we learn that that which is most personal is most general. And so, in a sense, we disappear into this larger world.