We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

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.

As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.