Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation

Possibilities lies in a daring dream.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

I love being in love.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

In short, luck's always to blame.

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.