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.

I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

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

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?