The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

Fame is a very strange animal.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.