I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.

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.

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 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.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

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