Quotes from Usher

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

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.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.

There's always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you.

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.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

These days, I try to eat for my blood type when I'm not eating for the fat kid inside me.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Success is measured by personal happiness.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life.

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.

I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.

Down time is not the name of the game.

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.

It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.