I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

It takes an open-minded person to understand that we are all one regardless of our complexion. Whether it's a red or blue jeep, it's still a jeep.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

We try to find chemistry; we don't do a lot of situational baseball.

You think you are somebody and that is where the problem begins. You're really not somebody, you're everybody. You objectify yourself into thinking that you are a particular state of being.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.