“The music I should be doing is music that you haven't heard before - w...” — Tricky Quote

“The music I should be doing is music that you haven't heard before - whether you like it or not. I don't want to just repeat.”

“I think Kylie's underrated... Cool is knowing yourself and I think Kylie Minogue really knows who she is and doesn't try to be anything else.”

“When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the people can come and see the person. And her coffin was next to my room, so I used to go in and stand on a chair and look at her. You know, it's open coffin and stuff.”

“'Nothin' on You' by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I'd been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.”

“The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.”

“I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.'”