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

Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.

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

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.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

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.

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