I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

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

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

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

Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

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.