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" We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people's heads; they don't understand it. "

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" 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. "

Ne-Yo

Song

Sick

Power

" I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection. "

" With Jay-Z, it's hard not to be amazing. "

" There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist. "

" Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar. "

" Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble. "

Ne-Yo

Trouble

Involved

" I'm good but not great at 'Madden'. I have friends that their whole life is based around this video game. "

" 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It's the reason I live in Atlanta to this day, that film. But as far as acting goes, it wasn't very challenging. I played me. "

Ne-Yo

Opportunity

Live

" Now that I have kids, I want my kids to appreciate my music, but at the same time, I don't want to teach them anything that they shouldn't know just yet. "

" I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'! "

Ne-Yo

Come

Away

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

" 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. "

" 'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself. "

Ne-Yo

Brave

Yourself

" My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing. "

Ne-Yo

Sister

Three

" I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own. "

Ne-Yo

Listening

Mom

" 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. "

" Me and Drake gonna be neighbors if Donald Trump becomes president. "

Ne-Yo

Neighbors

Donald Trump

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

Ne-Yo

Reality

Song

" 'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period. "

" Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right. "

" Growing up in Vegas, over time you get to see shows like Tom Jones, Wayne Newton, I mean, The Rat Pack ran Vegas way, way back, and I'm a huge fan of that whole era and vibe. "

" As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do. "

" Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that. "

" I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson. "

" 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. "

" The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance. "

" I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought. "

" A lot of times, when artists are rushing to put out projects, it's on some financial tip because they want to make money. But for me, I'm not in any rush. "

" One of the very few things that I actually read about myself on blogs that got to me was people saying, 'Ne-Yo doesn't do R&B music anymore.' Just because I stepped off the porch to explore doesn't mean I don't live in that house anymore. "

" 'Madden' is the closest thing to actually being on the field yourself. It's so ridiculously realistic. Before I play it, I honestly didn't understand. 'What's all the hype? It's a video game'. Then I sat down and played it, and you feel like you're on the field. "