Music Quotes

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

My music is a very simple type, and that's why the kids have no trouble understanding it. They don't want to figure out what a musician does; they want to feel it.

I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I'm super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.