My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.

Grab somebody sexy, tell the hey!

I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.