There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

I am a complete jazz nerd.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.