You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.