When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.

Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself.

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes.

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

I'm just a restless soul musically.

Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.