I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

Baby you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I'm going to probably go for them!

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy.

There was a duplication of myself involved, perhaps even a triplication.There was I who was writing. There was I whom I could remember. And there was I of whom I wrote, the protagonist of the story.

She opened her eyes with a gasp. “I love you.” He had tears running a path down his face. He nodded. “Back at ya, pretty child. So, so much.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Rock'n'roll will never go away completely because it's so fundamentally attractive.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.