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

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.

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.

If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.

Cemeteries can be creepy, creepy, ‘specially at night.

When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!

And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.