Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and...
I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.
You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.
What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...
Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's ju...
The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.