When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.