There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.