I love movies and I love art – and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, ‘Oh my God!’ when you get to the top before you come down. It’s just the same as structuring a show or a dance.
What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That’s all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That’s all I want to do. I don’t want to hurt anybody.
Somebody once said it’s the SOUL that matters.
People are always saying: ‘They’ll take care of it. The government will. Don’t worry, they will’. They who? It starts with us. It’s us. Or else it’ll never be done.
I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it’s actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that’s the biggest sin in the world.
The press has made up so much... God... awful, horrifying stories... it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
A lot of people think that I’m a Michael Jackson impersonator.
What’s the point? you can bring in 50 witnesses and it would not change what the tape clearly shows.
There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.
The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists.
What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one’s life and will hopefully touch others as well.
Whatever you believe, you become.
We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.
I want people to appreciate talent and ability.
I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it...
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die...
I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that’s even too much to ask for from some people.