I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.