I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.