Which is better, sex or love?
Hmm, well both of them can get you killed, to tell you the truth. That's just the reality of things! I have to say love. I have to say love. Because, you know, sex is trivial. You could have sex with a person you absolutely hate. You can't love somebody and hate them at the same time; you can dislike them very much, but love, love is kinda what makes the world spin around. Sex just populates it!
What is the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you on stage?
You're going to force me to relive this! OK. I was in New York, I was doing a show in New York, and OK say that here's the stage, right, and there's an orchestra pit in front of the stage. The stage is black, and the extension to the stage, the thing they put over the orchestra pit, is black too. In between these two is about a one foot trench. And you can't see it from the stage, and I didn't know it was there! So I step on the stage and go "Everybody make some noise for Ne-Yo!" [makes crowd noise] and I step on the stage to perform 'So Sick', I go "Do-do-do-do-do-whoomph" and my whole leg went down into this trench! Security had to come and pull me up out of this trench, and it was really really bad. I kinda played it off, I was like "Sorry guys, I'm a little clumsy tonight so I'm gonna go backstage and come back out and we're gonna try this again."
You lived in Las Vegas, did you ever want to become a professional gambler?
No no no no no! And I'll tell you why, because it's the saddest thing in the world to go in a casino and see an old blue haired woman sitting at a slot machine, leave the casino for however many hours, come back and see that same lady sitting in the same spot and you know she hasn't moved. That's the saddest thing in the world and it's like, there's a multitude of that woman in Las Vegas, so no, never ever wanted to become a professional gambler. I don't even really gamble, I play craps every now and then, that's really the only game that I play in Las Vegas. That's the dice. And the only reason I play that is because there's a way to play that game, and win every time the dice is rolled. I would tell you the secret, but I don't want you to go to Las Vegas and lose your shirt!
On 'When You're Mad', you claim that your lady is more beautiful when she's angry. Do you deliberately make her angry just so she looks prettier?
OK well, 'When You're Mad' is a song - it's actually a true story - about a relationship that I was in, and it wasn't that she was prettier when she was mad, but she had this face that she would make when she was mad at me that was just the sexiest thing in the world. It was just such an... ooh, it was one of those faces! And she could only make it when she was mad, like I asked her to make the face for me, and she's like "What face? I don't know what you're talking about!" so I'd have to do small things, not anything big, you know, maybe leave the toilet seat up or drink right out of the carton, like little stuff I knew aggravated her, so she can make this face. So that - mmm - I'm gonna keep it very PG right now but I think you know where I'm going!
Can a man ever wear too much denim?
Yeah. You know what, I was somewhere just recently, where was I... I don't even remember where I was. But this guy, and it's funny that you ask me this because this guy, he had on some regular jeans, he had on Timberland boots but they were the same colour - same denim - as the jeans, and he had on a denim tank top, you know the little undershirt, in America they call them wife beaters, I don't know why. But it was denim! Like, who wears a jean tank top? Where did you find that? Why did you wear that? Like it was just really really really overkill. And his hat was denim! He was denim man. It's possible to wear too much of any fabric. So yeah be careful with that OK? Mix your fabrics. Mix 'em. Mix 'em up. OK?
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