When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

And then you’ll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who’s only yours. And you’ll realize… that this is where your life is.

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.