You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"