“The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.”

It don’t last forever, the pain. Realize that tomorrow is coming. Move further from this pain and this stress.

Music is the vehicle of man’s life.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

As an artist myself I don’t like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

I am so confident in that idea that if love gets a chance, it will transform the community and the world into a more prosperous place, because we are capable of love.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise, and in the next second, and in the next minute.

When the seeds of justice are trees and the fruits we eat are sweet, I will be glad.

My imagination would run wild in the hills.

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.

All of my life I’ve been growing into who I am in my life today and I am still growing, but I believe in love and nothing can deter me in that.

I’m always in love.

God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

I loved you for all the reasons why you thought you couldn’t love yourself.

I expressed because you gave me enough freedom be myself around you, and thus, you deserve the same. You deserve to be heard too and not be counseled to at your attempt.

when he smiles at me, i swear my heart jumps. But when he kisses me? then, i burn.

If I could choose how to die, I would drown in your eyes.

He thought that he wanted the whole world. When she arrived in his life, she became his whole world.

I need a wolf, a beast with a ravenous appetite. Devour me like desperate goods. Ravage me my warrior lover, mark your territory. I’m not a typical lover, I’m a woman with a taste for blood.

I am trying to talk about love without biting my tongue.