Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.