Top 40 Luke James Quotes

I like a person that’s a little crazy and demanding, but I also like a woman that knows how to let me drive and then knows when to take the wheel. I may have a down day, and I need someone to be there for me as I would be there for them.

There are lots of reasons people come to Beyonce shows. There’s the music, her dancing; all in all a bedazzling show. She’s a great performer and singer.

I was raised on Marvin Gaye. Before I knew Babyface or anyone else, I knew Marvin Gaye. My mother played Marvin Gaye.

I want people to know me for following my dreams.

I’ve always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.

New Orleans is gumbo. You get so man types of things… jazz, folk, Zydeco.

I like to be funny and make a girl laugh.

Just be true all the way through, and people can’t do anything but respect you for it.

If you’re truly serious about your physique and health, in totality, I think you need to pull out all stops. You need to really just hone in on that warrior within.

As an only child, you’ve got to stand up for yourself.

I’d love to jump in a spaceship and shoot myself to the moon, where I’ll paint the word ‘Love.’ So when people step outside before they go to bed and look up to see it, they’ll just dream of love.

I’m always going forward, and there’s no limits.

‘Wait a Minute,’ which I consider my expose, came from a place of someone asking me to make a decision: basically presenting me with an ultimatum and me just feeling the need to just lay it out on the table.

I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock – whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment.

You have to stand on your beliefs.

‘Dancing in the Dark’ is one track. Basically, the song is about connecting with someone mentally, and you’re moved so much by the intellect that both of you want to make it physical.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man – music just came to me.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

When I first got turned on to ‘Purple Rain,’ I was just moved by Prince’s charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.

I consider myself an honest soul.

Marvin Gaye, I’m super influenced by him. D’Angelo, Donny Hathaway. All the old school cats. New people, I like M83. I like Coldplay. I love Frank Ocean. Miguel. I get inspired by all these cats. People don’t know that me and Frank Ocean went to high school together.

I think love is important.

I’ve always wanted to sing and to be an entertainer. After high school, I moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles and started songwriting. But I didn’t really get serious until then.

In love, I’ve been a deceiver. But I realized being honest is so much easier than lying and being deceitful.

I love a very alluring woman. I love a strong woman. I love a woman that wanders, that just wants to explore.

I’ve grown from being around other singers. I’ve learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own songs and discovering how to tell my own story properly.

It is such an unimaginable honor to be sharing the light yet again with Beyonce on her sold out Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. This is a blessing that I do not take lightly.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.

It’s very tough to be away from someone you love or you’re used to seeing all the time. But if you’re truly in love, it will work. But it is difficult.

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

My idea is not to be big. I just want to be really lean and shredded as I possibly can get – a lot of cardio, light weight, and a lot of my own weight to build up my endurance.

I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.

Before any girl was making me her Man Crush Monday, I was a singer. Back before I had muscles, when I had a bird chest, I was a singer. I’ve always been like this, and I’ve gotten better because I’ve progressed.

I always find time for my mother.

I can’t ever doubt myself. Never.

Bey is a big sister; she’s a huge supporter. I mean, the whole Destiny’s Child family – Kelly and Michelle – they’ve always been great supporters of mine in all my endeavors.

What I learned from Beyonce is just the focus, the drive, and to stay creative and to always give, just keep giving. Throughout the years that she’s been doing it, since Destiny’s Child to now, she’s been giving.

Mostly everything I’ve ever sung comes from a personal place.

I just appreciate all the facets of a woman.

I didn’t get cool until I got to high school and people found out I could sing.