The-Dream

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.

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I listen to Sinatra way more than a person my age probably should.

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I'm not a singles artist - I never have been.

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Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a…

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It was always in me to just put records out. I don't like holding on to records.

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I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel…

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

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The cultural impact of records is more important to me than a No. 1 record.

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If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't…

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You never know somebody till you get in the room with them.

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People are so over what they did yesterday, they don't even sit and discuss what made it a great time. They'd have…

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I want to be the king of music. Period.

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I learned to play instruments and I've been in bands since I was 13, but I wanted to be an artist and…

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I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in…

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I don't stop working.

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Politics changes music most of the time. Ronald Reagan - you can kind of say that he made hip-hop what it was…

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Nightmares have become my dreams. I'm late for my date with destiny. I'm on my path.

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It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

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I'm everybody in music's guilty pleasure.

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Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't…

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

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Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful…

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What I look forward to the most is influencing an individual to go out into the world and make the world a…

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To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking…

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I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught.…

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