I have inner peace. It's a different person.

I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

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.

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

Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.