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.
Ne-YoWhat I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
Ne-YoEverybody 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.
Ne-YoI'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.
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