Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

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

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.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.