I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Your goals and dreams desperately need your consistent actions right at this very moment, and the future will surely judge and reward you based on how often and well you attend to them.

Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our weaknesss and sin.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested.