If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

I've always been loud.

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

'Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.