Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Millionaires, though, see objects like diamonds and good feelings merely as fruits. The root of true wealth, in fact, stems from your behaviors.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

Emotions are the color of the soul.

The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive.

It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.