It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Shine brightly thy inner light.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.