Quotes from Robin Thicke

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

I love 'Game of Thrones.'

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

You have to give love to get love.

I write songs like "The Sweetest Love." Of course I'm a little cheesy. Love is cheesy. Love is corny. But it's also the greatest feeling in the whole world.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle - there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.