Latest Ne-Yo Quotes from Interviews

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• There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

  Ne-Yo

  Pain, Heart, Broken

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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

  Successful, Order, Work Ethic

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.

  Ne-Yo

  Reality, Tv Shows, Cartoon

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

  Ne-Yo

  Italian, Italian Food, Cooks

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• Fear is a healthy part of success.

  Ne-Yo

  Healthy

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.

  Ne-Yo

  Perfection, Imperfection, Want

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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

  Real, Lying, Pride

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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

  Believe, Up To You, Might

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

  Ne-Yo

  Play, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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.

  Ne-Yo

  Sleep, Guy, Want

  "Q&A: Despite hits, Ne-Yo feels under-appreciated". Associated Press Interview, www.philstar.com. September 19, 2008.

• 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

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciated

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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

  Believe, Issues, Forget

• 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.

  Ne-Yo

  Back When, Rats, Suits

  "A Blogger & A Gentleman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

• 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

  Men, Doors, Views

  "A Blogger & A Gentleman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

• The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

  Ne-Yo

  Essence, Gentleman, Way

  "A Blogger & A Gentelman: Buzzworthy Goes Backstage With Ne-Yo". Interview with Tamar Anitai, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2008.

• I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.

  Ne-Yo

  Essence, Years, Gentleman

• What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

  Ne-Yo

  Artist, Simple, Periods

• 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

  Mean, Writing, People

• For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

  Ne-Yo

  People, Trends, Want

• What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

  Ne-Yo

  Promise, Hot, Trends

• 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

  Song, Differences, Persons

• 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.

  Ne-Yo

  Writing, Eye, Talking