I make grown-folks music, and I'm cool with that. I accept that. I try to be witty while also delivering a message.

I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I feel like there is just something beautiful about black women.

A lot of beautiful women that I have come across are the most insecure.

When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.

There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.

Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.

To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.

The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.

Relationships are amazing parts of our lives, but they are not always easy. They become even harder when we allow others to interfere in them with their questions and opinions.

Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.

When it comes to beauty, women are nothing short of amazing. They come in variations of shapes, colors, and sizes. Each part of their character and personality adds an element to their beauty.

In every video that I have done, I have tried to have lead actresses of different variations from size and color to nationality.

I believe in highlighting the 'greatness' that I see in every single woman that I come across. There is such beauty in variety. It may not always be evident, when you look at a woman, where her greatness lies. But the truth is that the greatness of women is reflected in the very essence of who we are.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

I just feel like there's a lot of great R&B songs out there with nobody to sing them.

I was frustrated in the past, like, 'Wow, why do they have to throw me in the R&B urban adult contemporary lane?' 'Woman' was a no. 1 hit at Urban AC, so there's no disrespect to that lane. But did it get a fair shot at urban radio? No, I don't think so.

I always been inspired and aspire to inspire through the music. I feel like I've always made the soundtrack to a movement.

If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.

I stay in the studio diligently. I'm always trying to create.

Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don't see how, as an American citizen, you can't go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.

I think I am the type of artist that, time and time again, either people love or don't know about.

At the end of the day, I just like to make the best music that I can make and put it out to the world and see how they respond to it.

I'm a modern-day hippie.

Even in a lot of hip-hop music, they tell you don't give your heart to a woman. But many of the most successful rappers are head-over-heels in love.

A lot of people put out an album, and you never hear from them again. They're working a day job or doing whatever to survive through life.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.

When things happen socially in our community, as artists, we've got the right to exercise our voices if we choose to, use our powers for good.

I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn't understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.

No matter what road I take, I can never get too far away from the conscious lyric and the socially conscious content.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, 'Misery loves company.' I am also reminded to be mindful of the company you keep. Sometimes you cannot see a hater until you are happy. It is then that they demonstrate their negativity.

In some cases, if you are not happy with a certain scenario, you have to give it a makeover, you know?

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.

Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.

We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.

I try to stay away from yes-men in my crew of immediate friends and peers. You got people that will tell you you're the greatest ever, but I need people that can tell me where I need to improve. I can respect the honest opinion.

I want to be that guy who gives you an album every 12 months.

'Pretty Lady' is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.