I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.