Quotes from Miguel

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

I associate creativity with independent music.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.