I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

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.

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

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.

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.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

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.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.