“Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I’m always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now … I am.”

My favorite thing about being famous… it’s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It’s still pretty tough.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I’ve had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me… I learned my lesson.

There’s not a day that I don’t work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.

My career is my girlfriend.

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I would forgive my mom, but she’s going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

I’m always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called ‘Dead End.’ The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.

The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission.

Let’s let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don’t you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, ‘Why weren’t you there?’ and he says, ‘I’m going to really tell you the truth,’ then you won’t know.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.