ROBIN THICKE

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.

You have to give love to get love.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

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

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

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.

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

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

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

I hate not giving the people what they want.

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

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

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

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.

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

I love 'Game of Thrones.'

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.

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

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.

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

I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.

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.

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.

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

I took whatever the devil offered me.