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

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.

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