Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.