I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

I would like to think that I'm a gentleman and a nice guy.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

I'm literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity.

Business people want things to be safe but that's rubbish to me. In music nothing should be safe.

I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.

You want what you write to be essential.

Love's been here from the beginning of time, and life would be very boring without it.

For me, learning how to sing was just like learning how to speak.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

I love acting, but I've always prioritized my music.

You don't hear that much about me being a white and singing soul music in England, but I get the feeling that in America it's really a big thing. It's like, 'God, look at the color of her skin.'

If you are a soul singer, you are a soul singer. If you are a heavy metal singer, then you are a heavy metal singer. What's color got to do with it? I don't go around thinking, 'I sing soul music and I'm white.' I just sing the way I feel.

People come up to me and sing, 'Been around the world and I-I-I-I... ' all the time.