I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

Tomorrow is always another day to make 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.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

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.

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.