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

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.

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

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

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

I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

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.