"I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey." — Usher

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.