It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

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 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 feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

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

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