[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.

I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up.

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

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.