Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
I swear by my Clarisonic Mia 2! I use it every morning when I wake up and every night before bed.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.
Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.
I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy.
What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
My mom told me I never had enough Tonka toys when I was growing up.
I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
