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

A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.

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

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

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles