I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

Whatever the marketplace, if talented people are given resources, they're going to keep driving us to having better, simpler, cheaper solutions to problems.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

There is no model, there is only color.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.