Quotes from The-Dream

Anytime a musician says they're going to retire they're lying.

I love Rihanna period!

I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why he's misunderstood. The boy is a genius. You can be mad all you want, but he loves what you listen to more than you love it. When he lost his mom I cried.

I paint. A lot of people don't know that.

I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell them that I did it. I love art.

To somebody else saying all I need is 10 million dollars, then I've probably made it. But there are Paul McCartneys walking around with $500 million catalogs. That's pretty much what I want. And that's just music. That doesn't even include directing and writing of movies and all of the other things that I want to go on to do. So I have a big dream.

I'm a vulnerable guy, which is always been there, you know? Like, most of the time I put myself in positions where I am vulnerable, because I don't think you're living unless you do.

Man's biggest enemy is a woman who has it in for them.

I always loved the Clipse. Period, point blank.

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

I don't believe in cards. I believe in cash. I'd carry gold if it wasn't so heavy.

One thing is relationships: Don't get in a relationship if you're going to leave a man if he cheats on you. Because 99% of the time he's going to cheat.

Some of the time, I am competing with myself.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.

I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

Whether I'm working with a Top 40 artist or crafting my own music, it goes back to one thing: telling a powerful story and having that story resonate with people.

I really love customising certain songs for certain people. No matter what weight that comes with it - whether it comes with it not being a number one on the Top 100 or whatever. I'd rather write someone a career defining record.

At the end of the day, I'm big on principle and loyalty.

Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a conversation with a 15-year-old. I don't dine with 15-year-olds and talk about life. Our experiences are completely different.

I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught. It's something that comes and goes.

This is Life. Nothing's promised or perfect, neither am I.

Money affects everything, from who I'm with to what label I'm on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn't understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.

People aren't really honest with themselves about anything. That's one of the reasons why we ended up with Trump in the White House.

If anybody sounds like me... everyone knows me, I'm flattered.