"Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?' After they laugh…"

"I just love music."

"I'm a black man, and I've been through a lot of things. But I've always kept my head up."

"I'm a free spirit. I do what I want, when I want."

"The only Maybelline I knew was the name of a cow."