The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I'm using more energy than ever.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

The best Products are customized not standardized.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.