I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I just want to give people the best album that I possibly can.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Honestly, I think dating is hard. Period.

May we love each other not only at Christmas but all year.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.