I fell in love with music by listening to R&B, & it's the core of who I am.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.