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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm a modern-day hippie.

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

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

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

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

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