Miguel

“I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.”

“I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.”

“You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.”

“I always had a fascination with music.”

“I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.”

“One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.”

“At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.”

“A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.”

“Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.”

“I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.”

“To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.”

“Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.”

“Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.”

“Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.”

“I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.”

“My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'”

“I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.”

“I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.”

“I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.”

“I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.”