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

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.

It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.

The ballet is a purely female thing it is a woman a garden of beautiful flowers and man is the gardener.

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.

I am worthy of love and joy.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Canada has always been there to help people who need it.

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

People think I'm nuts.

Virtue is harmony.