I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.

When it's your time, it is your time.

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your passion. It doesn't take a fragrance, it's not about the tabloids, it's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, practicing your vocals, practicing your instrument, practicing songwriting. Hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. I promise you, if you go out there and sing and you put your heart and soul into it and you follow your dream, one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl.