Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy.

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

With everything that is going on with hip-hop and with what everybody is doing I don't want to be in that lane. I think my lane is very different.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I’d never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.

The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

If you believe that the economy has more power over you than GRACE does, then you will buy into that story and start to live that life.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.