From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

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.

Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

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.

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.