I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

There ain't a wrong time or a wrong place to flaunt. If you feel good, then go on and show it off!

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

To know and not to do, is not to know.

Every flower has a song in her heart, which we can never see.We only can see her external beauty.

That's why I like the blackest nights-the darkest, obsidian skies of winter. When the world is coldest and darkest, the stars shine brightest.

There is a difference between skill and talent. Master the skill to allow the talent out.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

The spirit of what we do is that you do what you feel and when you feel it and not feel you have to be something you're not: you have to be honest to yourself.

If I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing.

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.