Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.

Not only the right thing is the right thing, but doing the right out of the right motives is the right thing.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

Lenny Kravitz is one of my favorite musical artists.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.