I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.