There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

You have to give love to get love.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Everyone is part of you.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.