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.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

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.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.