Thinking Quotes

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.

Every once in a while I think, ‘What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?’

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

Everyone’s been so quick to say that I’m really thick or I haven’t got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.

It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

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.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you’re from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there’s this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, ‘Well, you say I’m a pop star, so maybe that’s not true.’