It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Love yourself for who you are. You are beautiful inside and out, and nobody can take that away from you.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Power is what is required to change the universe - to change yourself into what you might like to be.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.