Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

I love music; it's my passion.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

If pain is truly love, for my family I die.

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.