I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

I'm not a hater, I'm not one of those people. I do think it's dope when people get recognized for whatever it is that they do, so more power to everybody who got nominated.

I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

I'm not like, overly anxious or nothing like that, because sometimes when you're overly anxious it kind of brings a weird energy around and I just like to just take things one day at a time.

I can look at you and say, 'I'm gonna be the biggest artist in the world' because, at the end of the day, it's about the trust I have in God. He's already shown me that I'm gonna fulfil my destiny.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.

Be happy with what you have.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

[Sun Yat-sen is a] combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.

The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.