Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.

I have a beautiful wife and a wonderful support system and I think in those low moments, I could never thank them enough.

Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my life, is my home.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.

I want to go to New Zealand so bad! I have amazing memories of being in that country, of jumping off of a building in Auckland and having so much fun.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.

But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness, as if things were only funny in spite of themselves.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.