Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I like down-to-earth people.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.

If you want to be happy, then be happy. Misery is a choice.

Alexei was a dream of something more... He was a reminder that I could be so much more...

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

Kiss the blackest part of my behind.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?