Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18, 1979), known professionally as Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor.
Grab somebody sexy, tell the hey!
For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.
I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.
I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.
My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?
Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.
A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.
I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.
Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.
There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.
An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.
I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.
That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.