Quotes from Miguel

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

I always had a fascination with music.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.