I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I like down-to-earth people.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

Workout. Lead a balanced life and try to have fun. It's what you make it.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.