“I don’t know what it feels like not to have a great family support system – I was lucky to have that.”

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It’s not attractive.

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It’s a way to connect with fans that wasn’t available just a few years ago.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30 something.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I am committed to glamour.

Stand naked in front of the mirror and say, ‘I’m f–king sexy.’ That’s where it starts.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I don’t think I could do a reality show, no.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

Spare the rod and spoil the child – that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

We don’t need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.