Music is my contribution to life. I have my heart in it.

I think God outdid Himself when He created children.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.