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

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.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

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.

I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

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.