If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.