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

I realize that R&B is what I do best, and I'm comfortable with that.

As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.