Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

An unknown road will always lead somewhere where you haven't been before.

My dear poetry, There’s a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.