I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.