"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."

"I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?"

"People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."

"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."

"It is a timeless truth that do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."

"I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite."

"I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record."