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Frustration is not the way to go.
Finding a solution is the way to go.
My goal was to bring good music back.
I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.
There are a lot of young artists that are dope.
I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.
If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.
R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.
I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.
Im living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.
Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.
I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'
I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.
My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.
My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.
Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.
Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.
If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.
Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.
Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.
I'm not in the clubs; I'm a homebody. I go out when I feel I have to for work or if there's a special function. You might catch me at the grocery store, but you won't see me out and about in Atlanta.
I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
I've never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called 'Make It Last Forever: The Do's and The Dont's,' which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.
Don't get caught up in the 'look' thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that's not always a good thing because what's good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
The people that buy music might not be able to afford to buy music. It might not even be a situation where people don't want to buy your stuff. It might be a situation where they can't afford to buy it because food prices are too high. I can respect that.
The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.