I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.