Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about what I was before the song was written.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.