I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Focus on the end, not the beginning- on the beginning not the end- The process proceeds in the inner dimension.

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Make a habit of dominating the listening, and let the prospect dominate the talking.

The ball is an essential part of the game.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Centralized health dictatorship.

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.