“When I’m lovin’ these hoes, there ain’t no love involved.”

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it’s heard in the right way.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That’s what makes a marriage work.

I’m high off the indo creepin’ with the quickness to the cut, bust one to his head while he munches on that donut.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

I’d rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He’s trying to kill everybody in jail.

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.

It ain’t that I’m too big to listen to the rumors, It’s just that I’m too damn big to pay attention to ’em.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.

I’ve gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it’s almost like a high. You don’t want it to stop. You don’t want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

I don’t have room in my life for folks that large and demanding.

I am never going to give music up.

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.

The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!

There’s no better feeling than making somebody smile.

Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.

I don’t think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they’ve watched me grow up. But that’s a blessing and a curse.

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.