It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

Don't be flirting with your gift, you better marry it

I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.

Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.

I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.

As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.

It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.