Politics are not my arena. Music is.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.