I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

Performing onstage is all about reacting in a grand way. You're playing an arena of seventeen or eighteen thousand people and it's your job to make sure the person at the back feels as cool as the person all the way in the front. Being on stage is a bit of a façade. You get to walk out there and be the coolest version of yourself that you could possibly have imagined and then you come off stage and you're just like everyone else.