Some days I'll be like, "You know what? Why don't I go to my daughter's studio and make a song?!" And then I don't! I don't know if I would have all the time it takes to put into a song.

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off.

Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

I'm always giving out advice. People always come to me for that.

Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

To take a leap, you must hope not to fall.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

If even a small portion of the praise that is bestowed on Michael Jackson now in death was given to him last year, in life, he might well still be with us.