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I love 'Game of Thrones.'
Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.
You have to give love to get love.
I took whatever the devil offered me.
I hate not giving the people what they want.
I love 'Game of Thrones.' That's my favorite.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
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 never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.
Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.
Entertain the people. Give them something they're not ready for, make them talk.
Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.
I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.
Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.
Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.
I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?
I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.
There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office.
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.
I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.
I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.
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.
To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle - there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth.
I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.
Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.
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.
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.
Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.
Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.
When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.