If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

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

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

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?

Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.