I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

Being a parent is very important to me.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.