Usher (musician)

You know you blew up when the women rush the stands and try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans. ~ Marshall B. Mathers

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978) is an American singer and actor.

Quotes

• It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man — a black man. — in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.
  • From an interview with VIBE, "Caught Up" (July 2008), p. 65-71.

• I wouldn't call myself a coward, no way. But being buried alive is something I could never handle. The only way you'd see me being buried alive is if I was dead, man.
  • From an interview with VIBE, "Caught Up" (July 2008), p. 65-71.

• [I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.
  • From "Usher ‘experimental’ in relationships", Q Magazine (May 25, 2012).

• I rose to frame in the late 1990s and continued to earn accolades for my R&B hits. I take my first Grammy Award home in 2005.
  • From "http://www.popsugar.com/Usher"

Quotes about Raymond

• You know you blew up when the women rush your stands and try to touch your hands like some screaming Usher fans.
  • Marshall B. Mathers, "My Name Is" (1999), The Slim Shady LP (February 1999).

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Usher (musician) on Wikipedia