If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!
If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.
I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.
Fear is a healthy part of success.
There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.
For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.
Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.
I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.
My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?
What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.
She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.
What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.
Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.
That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.
Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.
As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.
I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.
Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.
