There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.

Success is not success without a successor.

As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.