“And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.”

Everyone is in the same situation, at different levels and in different places.

The sweetest thing I’ve ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what’s in our hearts.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.

See no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

I consider myself a crayon. I may not be your favorite color but one day you’ll need me to complete your picture.

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow.

If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.