Grab somebody sexy, tell the hey!

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

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.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

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

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.

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.