People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

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

Honolulu is a melting pot.

The confidence Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson exuded from stage, I'm a fan of.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

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