In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

I come over here and a lot of people are like, "What's with the new hair?" I'm like, "Y'all must not have been looking - every album, I change."

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

Our lives change externally as we change internally.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

I went on Love Island thinking I was quite headstrong but it turned out I was quite emotional.

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