R&B Artist Quotes

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

Frank Ocean - I have so much respect for him.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

Erykah Badu - she's timeless, that's my second mom.

I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.

From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.

My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill. But career-wise, I'd say I'd want to have something most like Madonna.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.