Miguel Quotes

I'm really excited to put music out that is a clear projection of my lifestyle.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

My parents always told me that life is about asking questions which I didn't understand that until more recently. See the truth is like life is like a collection of questions really if you think about it. Or at least the ones we choose to acknowledge. See within those questions that we choose to acknowledge we answer them for ourselves because we have the need to and in those answers I believe that we find our own meaning, we find our own definition, we define what is we stand for, you know what I'm saying; who we are as people, as individuals, what we believe in. And that's how we celebrate our individuality. Now you would think that individuality would separate us but on the contrary the truth is we all answer pretty much the same basic questions for ourselves, they're not complicated questions you know. They're very simple, basic universal questions and that's why I wrote this song

I associate creativity with independent music.

What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

You only know that you're in love when you suffer.

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

I have learned that you're only relevant to someone if you're beneficial to them somehow/some way

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

Goat screaming videos are hilarious.

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula ... there's no boundary to R&B music.

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.