I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.