From the time that you are a child, you grow up repressing yourself.

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.