our product will speak for itself if it's that good and your fan base will come and people will want it. Having the right people in your circle is very important to help support that.

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

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

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.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

Method actors are like hams.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. But today, we stand together, and we call ourselves, simply, Americans.

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.