I'm not scared about saying what I think.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.