As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.