When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.

We no longer sing and dance. We don't know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

My message is that steroids is bad. Don't do them. It's a bad message.

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

I love team sports.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

My view is that those challenges will be easier to meet, those risks will be less if we vote to leave because we will have control of the economic levers; we will have control over money we send to the European Union. We will have control over our own laws, and as a result, we will be able to deal with whatever the world throws at us.

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.