Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

In business there's people who have talent and there's people whose talent is to take advantage of people who have talent.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.