The-Dream

“I'm a vulnerable guy, which is always been there, you know? Like, most of the time I put myself in positions where I am vulnerable, because I don't think you're living unless you do.”

“I grew up looking at the Grammys. It was a childhood infatuation with these people walking around with gold statues. I felt like they were the best, and that's why I started working so hard.”

“My mama died when she was 35 years old.”

“I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why he's misunderstood. The boy is a genius. You can be mad all you want, but he loves what you listen to more than you love it. When he lost his mom I cried.”

“There are certain people who respect me in the dark. Some people who don't know me are afraid to say, 'What you doin' is kind of incredible.'”

“Men don't really change. That's just how it is.”

“There's nothing I can't do musically.”

“I am pretty frank of a guy. That used to be appreciated, back in the day.”

“I think of myself just as a writer.”

“I'm not arrogant but I'm confident enough to know what I can do and what I can't do. And I'm fine with what I can't.”

“To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.”

“R&B is a conversation that you should be able to sit down and have.”

“I call my attorney three times a day.”

“Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.”

“I love Rihanna period!”

“The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at.”

“I can't control when somebody likes my song or they don't.”

“Everybody needs love and loves something.”

“When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.”

“My influence is everywhere.”