Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to 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.
Ne-YoWhat is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.
Ne-YoI 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.
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