I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

Every human being ask this question of himself

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.