I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

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.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.