I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I'm very open to fresh talent, and I love the underdog, people who have been counted out, because they come in with a different type of hunger. I'm all for the underdog, so I'd like to talk to anybody who shows up with that sort of thirst.

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

True love can come more than once.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.