I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

I feel that when you have a passion and you are real, you last throughout the ages and you're able to reincarnate your artistry numerous times.

Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

I feel like pain is the quickest way to relate to someone because everybody has been through that and everybody has had a heartbreak.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

I never put myself in a box. I like to have various different types of songs and different genres and situational songs. No matter is going on, I have something for that time or era.

When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.