Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.
Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.
I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.
I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.
I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.
I always had a fascination with music.
When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.
For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.
Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.
The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.
I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.
I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
