Quotes from Ginuwine

I really admire other voices.

It is my duty to bring awareness to people in need.

I really want to be different.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

See, every thing in show business is a lie. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. You are in situations where you are forced to think that you are better than everybody else because of the pedestal the fans place you on. It's a lie. This is just a job, a high-profile job. You have to keep that in perspective and not get caught up in the hype.

Look at the New Kids on the Block, the Back Street Boys and *NSYNC... all those boy bands happened because of New Edition.

I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don't forget your roots either.

I just like to do things that people can remember, but I wanna always do my own album and make statements.

A lot of people don't get second chances.

Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

Tyrese was my best man at my wedding.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

Back in the day, when 'Pony' came out, I don't believe there was anyone that could dance like me.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

If anybody in the business can capture the spirit of 'Pony,' it would have to be Rihanna.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

I'm actually a Dallas Cowboys fan.