I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

I'm using more energy than ever.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Be a model for the world, never a critic.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Hillary Clinton doesn't have the strength or the stamina to make America great again. Believe me.

I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.