Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
What was freely given to me, I freely give.
In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.