Top 86 Quotes & Sayings by Miguel

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

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.

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

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

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

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

I always had a fascination with music.

If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

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 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.

One of the most telling things about a person is how they say hello, handshakes.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

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.

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

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

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

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

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

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

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

I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.

I associate creativity with independent music.

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

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

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

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.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

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

If you take your happiness and put it in someone’s hands, sooner or later, she is going to break it. If you give your happiness to someone else, she can always take it away. Then if happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love, you are responsible for your happiness.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

The one who has the little need is the one who controls the whole relationship. You can see this dynamic so clearly because usually in every relationship there is one who loves the most and the other who doesn’t love, who only takes advantage of the one who gives his or her heart. You can see the way they manipulate each other, their actions and reactions, and they are just like the provider and the drug addict.

I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

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

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

You can't take yourself too seriously. But always have conviction.

It doesn’t matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

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

I embrace that I'm different. That I'm unique.