Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

There's nothing women love more than an effort. You can even mess it up. The shoes that you bought don't have to be right. You might have gotten the wrong chocolates. But she'll know if you made an effort.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.