When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

I come over here and a lot of people are like, "What's with the new hair?" I'm like, "Y'all must not have been looking - every album, I change."

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

It may be relatively mild when expressed as criticism, anger, or feelings of severe frustration. Criticism has a negative influence on the feelings of love for and interest in one's spouse.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic