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

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

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.

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

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.

Fear is a healthy part of success.