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

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Cool, Guy, Cooler, Flamboyant

When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

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Kid, Other, Made, Lyrically

The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

- Usher

Living, Here, Works, Paparazzi

I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

- Usher

Like, Wear, Too, Avant-Garde

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

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How, Image, Puff, None

I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

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Date, Boxes, Very, Categories

I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

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Morning, Private, Having, Morning Person

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.

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Made, Carried, Named, Usher

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

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Dreams, Believe, Achieve, Dreamers

Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.

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Create, Like, Someday, Fashionable

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

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Blessed, Feel, I Feel, Blessing

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

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Something, Like, Harry, Justin

As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

- Usher

New, Made, Motown, None

I'm more for the style than the brand. I don't go brand shopping; I go detail shopping.

- Usher

Go, More, Than, Shopping

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

- Usher

Believe, Will, Then, Learnt

I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.

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Prepare, Tub, Trained, Sit

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

- Usher

Sugar Ray Leonard, Boxer, Stylized

I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

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Like, Before, Grows, Push

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

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Father, Through, Going, Apart

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.

- Usher

Grow, Like, Becoming, Smarter

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

- Usher

Journey, Success Is, May, Foresight

I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

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Past, Searching, Maybe, Helps

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

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Personality, Star, Also, Fake

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

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Woman, Like, About, Herself

When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

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Bad, Mature, Benefits, Al

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.

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Natural, Individual, Figure, Same Direction

Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

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Think, Been, I Think, Tear

I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.

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Love, Marriage, Still, I Believe In

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

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Future, Children, Raising, Philosophy

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

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Woman, Give, His, Present

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