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

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing

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

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

My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?

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.