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

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that's the award.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again

The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.