Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

I believe leaders should be questioning machine, rather than an answering machine.

Christmas is not only where you find it

You say be honest, but honestly you don't want honesty

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.