If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

When you're talented, you're talented.

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.