Born on April 10th

"It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it."

"Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real."

"The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different."

"I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up."

"Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough."

"You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times."

"It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it."

"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."

"I don't necessarily want people to know all my intimate feelings about Tracey."

"I could easily not be the person that people know."

"The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician."

"When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles."

"But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too."

"There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova."

"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."

"I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals."

"I enjoy music that is commercial."

"I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that."

"Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind."

"I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything."

"I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American."

"There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial."

"I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well."

"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."

"The Internet is a whole new world opening up."

"Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other."

"R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from."

"I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing."

"I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it."

"I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song."