I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet to come out.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.