Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws.

In the silence of night, great minds either unite or die

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.