I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.

I've lived a phenomenal life, and there's more life in me, but I'm here, I'm not yesterday, but all those yesterday's brought me here. So I'm very comfortable with that.

I think with all of us, sometimes we're afraid to recognize that we're here.

I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

If you look at my history, I'm not gonna let that many people into whatever I'm going through.

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

You will find when you open your heart and can fill it with loving, beautiful thoughts, that you will want to love all those souls you come into contact with, no matter who they are.

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.