There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

Remember one rule, no rule.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.