“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.”

“I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?”

“I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.”

“I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.”

“The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.”

“Belief creates the actual fact.”

“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.”