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

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

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.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.