When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

When I get involved, I give it my heart, I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part. But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't. It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.

It's hard to make it one piece of advice. For me, what's most important is you kind of choose your point of view.

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.

Vladimir Putin is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing - the man has very strong control over a country.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

I like America to some extent.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.