D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.