I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

True Christianity finds all of its doctrines in the Bible

But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.

Vengeance is disappointing, always.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.