I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Discomfort is the sign, you are on right track.

Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.