“If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wann...” — MNEK Quote

If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to share.

I started out writing and producing as a way for me to get the confidence to put out my own record and to learn and to really be a student of the industry.

I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the next level and it gives a song a new life.

The perspective that I come from when I sing, when I perform, is of who I am as a black gay man.

'Tongue' is literally just one piece of the puzzle. This album is something I've worked on over the course of my entire career and something I've been discovering myself in it.

The future is in the kids, and they're more likely to listen to music and musicians that they can look up to and they can relate to, rather than people who they usually tune out.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

I knew I could kind of carry a tune, but I didn't sing. So I worked with an incredible vocal coach and a couple guitar coaches.

I will go for a simple girl who's completely in tune with me and who gets along with my family.

I love Sertab Erener with 'Everyway That I Can' - that was an absolute tune.