Adversity doesn't exist to make us stronger. Adversity exists because this world is a damn hard place to live. Prove that you're better than the things it throws at you. Live.

May the light of love illuminate your path.

If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.