It just felt like all the excitement in the world was in the building [at the Democratic convention].

When I get involved, I give it my heart, I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part. But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't. It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

When you say you love me, it doesn't matter. It goes into my head as just chit-chatter. You may think it's egotistical or just worry-free, But what you say, I take none of it seriously.

What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.

I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by Thee.

[I like to read] spiritual books, non-fiction, fiction, I have my moods.

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.