Life is so precious, such a gift, and that you have to live for you.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.