Once your motivation is killed, it's kind of hard to revive it and bring it back to life.

For me, I feel like if a woman doesn't find me attractive 'cause I'm taking care of myself, then that's not the woman I want.

I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.

If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

If it sounds good to me and I hate my voice, so if I'm willing to listen to my voice over and over again, it's a hit. Guaranteed it'll be a hit.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

I want a woman that wants me to take care of myself because truly, that tells a lot about you. And if you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of a woman? How can you take care of kids?

Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.

I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.

Christians must have the fragrance of Jesus Christ.

You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better.--Luc to Jane--

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

We are an unfinished nation.

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.