Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

I think there's grays in characters if you look at all the great characters, those characters that have those layers of being good and being bad and what's the struggle. It's always more interesting to watch.

Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.