What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
Ne-YoFor those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.
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.
Ne-YoMy 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
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