I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

There's a lot of stuff in the club that's like, it's cool there because you're drinking and all you wanna do is do ignorant sh*t.

I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.