I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

It is a fight and struggle to just be yourself.

I always say, "When you know it's right, everything will fall into place."

I've never killed anyone but I've felt the emotion

If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them

It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me

You never get another first time. I just remember being excited and that feeling of "Wow my dream is really coming true".

When you're listening to my album, I want you to know that things happen and eventually you get over it

I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?

...this is your life. It's not your mom's. You have to do what makes you happy too

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.