“I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. I...” — Raheem DeVaughn Quote

I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it's your money, it's your vision from the beginning to the end result.

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.

You can't abandon an audience you created, because people will find someone else.

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

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.

As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.