Kids are probably frustrated and egos are too much involved and kids don't know how to get together and be kids and start a group and it's kind of sad because I feel like if you come out with three or four people in the beginning, you can be protected and everybody can shield each other. Before you get out there by yourself and get all these people coming at you. I just think it's not really there.

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

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

My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.

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.

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

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.