The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that’s unstoppable. You can’t get through it, you know.
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
You’ve got to love what’s yours.
Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!
Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can’t say I came prepared I’m suspended in the air Won’t you come be in the sky with me.
Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
If your family – just because they’re blood doesn’t mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.
I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that’s exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I’d written and talking to the people in between. That’s how I got my performance chops up.
If I can remain excited about the music that I’m giving you, then you’re damn sure going to be excited about it.
I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn’t recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.
You just can’t take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that’s been instilled in me. And I don’t look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.
I’m discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I’m discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I’ve buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.
I don’t know if I’d go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien’s vibe. I’m a vibe person.
There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.
I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.