Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.

My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.