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"Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator."
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"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."

"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."

"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."

"I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record."

"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."

"Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good."

"I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian."

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
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