"It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Music is my religion"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"