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

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

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

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.

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.

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.

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