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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.