Usher gets animated for the latest issue of Q magazine.

The R&B crooner who is currently involved in a nasty custody battle with his ex-wife Tameka Foster, confessed he has been too “experimental” in his romantic relationships.

“What were my issues? Well maybe not locking into one relationship! I was a little bit more… experimental. I’ve had many women. And I understand how to deal with a lot of different ones… But it is complicated when your reality is a fantasy. Fame is the modern double-edged sword.”

On what he’s learned about women: “There’s a lot of them. And they are all different. So, puh-lease, in no way, shape, form or fashion should you ever put them in the same box or category. But I’ve learned what women like. Confidence. And I’ve learned there is a softness that only a woman can possess. And you begin to see it when they have something, like a child, to love.”

On his success: “[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.”[via yahoo]