I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that. Ne-Yo More Quotes by Ne-Yo More Quotes From Ne-Yo If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you! Ne-Yo up-to-you might believe If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going. Ne-Yo work-ethic successful order The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman. Ne-Yo gentleman essence way I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying. Ne-Yo pride real lying Fear is a healthy part of success. Ne-Yo healthy Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes. Ne-Yo excuse-you shoes sexy There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken. Ne-Yo pain broken heart For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you. Ne-Yo trends want people What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth. Ne-Yo trends hot promise I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for. Ne-Yo writing mean people I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection. Ne-Yo imperfection perfection want My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean? Ne-Yo style comfort mean What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period. Ne-Yo periods artist simple She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try. Ne-Yo sexy trying men Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me. Ne-Yo song reality facts 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. Ne-Yo appreciated artist thinking Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole. Ne-Yo views doors men 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. Ne-Yo differences persons song 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. Ne-Yo singing mom listening 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. Ne-Yo issues forget believe
