I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.
I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.
I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
