I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.

Passion without purpose is like a shot without a target.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.