If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.

Huge 'Scandal' fan, and I have been since the beginning.

For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day.

Doing as much as you can for as long as you can -- that's the motto.

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he'll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It's not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.

Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.

A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama -- everything is rolled into that one performance.

I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.

My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.

I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.

There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?

You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be -- this is my son! It's not my son.