I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.