You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

I don't believe in writing people off.

Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking

Passion drove her deeper, into the abyss beneath his skin where she mapped his soul to the dance of his heartbeat...

Finding our joy requires no leaping. It only wishes we’d opt for being lifted.

Once the spark of true love has been ignited, it cannot be quenched. It is there forever.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.