No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.