I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I'd love to be Brian McKnight.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

Even though other people wrote my songs I put my stamp on them. I have a connection, but there is no truer connection than an artists and their own song.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

I need some money. You got any money?

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

A fallow field is a sin.

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.