I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Be the Light you seek so desperately in your life and chase away that darkness.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

My parents were both entrepreneurs.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.