I'm saying, that just kept, messing it up for everybody! And then everybody on your team doesn't have that drive that you have.

For me, I feel like if a woman doesn't find me attractive 'cause I'm taking care of myself, then that's not the woman I want.

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

Once your motivation is killed, it's kind of hard to revive it and bring it back to life.

If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

I want a woman that wants me to take care of myself because truly, that tells a lot about you. And if you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of a woman? How can you take care of kids?

Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.

Don't lose faith in humanity: think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

Break the mold! Have the biggest vision you can! If you can't dream it, it cannot occur!

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

You must always be faster and better than the others.

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.