To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Yes!!! I booked a commercial!!!

As you get older, your experiences become more precious. Nothing material is important to me. It's people who are precious.

It's an important thing to remember where you came from.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I do not explain, I explore.

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.