Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

I ALMOST KISSED THE GIRL LAST NIGHT.

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.