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1. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
2. Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It’s all work and no play.
3. Sometimes, when I’m scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I’m like, ‘How did Jonetta get in here?’
4. Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
5. Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
6. When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
7. I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
8. I’ve been working so hard, I’m about to have a Mariah Carey.
9. My philosophy is I’m raising future adults, not children.
10. I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.
11. I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
12. I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
13. The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.
14. As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
15. If you get lazy when you’re onstage, it shows.
16. Someday, I’d like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
17. I create from a place of passion. It’s like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
18. In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we’re better. And I feel like I’m becoming more seasoned, although I don’t have my salt-and-pepper hair.
19. You can’t fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
20. The girls want to see the rips on your stomach — they like that.