Usher Quotes

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

You either evolve or dissolve.

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

Live performance has always been my thing. It's my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

Down time is not the name of the game.

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.

It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool.

I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.

The first time I got a chance to meet Michael was onstage at Madison Square Garden. There were tons of people on the stage, and I just remember losing my mind. Like, Oh my God, that's Michael Jackson right there. I was just over his right shoulder. And then when I finally got a chance to get on the stage with him, I was just shut down. He had the type of magic that you just bowed to. I just said, I love you, and I know you've heard it a million and one times from fans all over the world, but you've meant so much to me as an entertainer, and I love you, and I've admired you all these years.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I tried football and got my ass beat. I tried baseball, and the ball knocked out one of my teeth.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Success is measured by personal happiness.

For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

We all possess exactly what we need to be our greatest selves ...

I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy ... Rest Well. Gone Too Soon ... we'll miss you!!

I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.

How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am.

It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man. - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.

I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.

[I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.

You know, I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there's a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

You are my superstar. I'm your number one fan, give me your autograph, sign it right here on my heart. Girl, I'll be your groupie, baby.

The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.