I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

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.'

Polarization breeds respect..

Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.

I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

I was always the bad guy in Westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.