Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.