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" I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined. "

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" 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give. "

" I'm confident as hell when I step in front of the mic. "

" I'm an owl; I'm up. I probably go to sleep during the time when most people wake up. The first half of the day, you might not catch me. "

" It messes me up sometimes when I go on stage and people say my name wrong. Say my name wrong with all these different syllables. I've heard everything. My name is easy as 1-2-3. Jer-eh-mih, syllable-wise. "

" I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope. "

" I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me! "

" It took me five years to realize what I could do with my voice. No Auto-Tune - cut all that off. "

" When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it. "

" I've never had vocal training. No one could ever say that they helped me carve what my voice has become. It's just been more of self-training: me just continuously going into the studio every night and trying out different beats. "

" There are artists that actually don't like going into the studio. They get mad when people say they've got a session. I'm just the opposite. I actually enjoy it. "

" If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me. "

" As far as romancing and catering to the women, I'm definitely here for all that. "

" Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it's nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. - R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it's nothing downtown. "

" I'm curious to know how many newborn babies will be named Jeremih after my second album. "

" I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike. "

" What I can offer the game is creating a sound that, when you hear it, you know it's mine. "

" Nothing against Nicki Minaj - I think she's a dope lyricist, and her body is perfect, along with a dope personality. But I'm more into a woman who's not so much into the spotlight. "

" If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most. "

" I want to show people all of me, because that's what I haven't been doing. To be able to play so many instruments, and no one's ever seen me play, it seems like someone who's bluffing. "

" R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either. "

" People send me records, and if don't like them, I won't do them; I don't care how much money you offer. "

" Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually tried to support has been No. 1. "

" Effortlessly, I feel like my records have longevity. "