When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

You never know how much time you got.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.