I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.

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

You're amazing, just the way you are.

I am so proud and so happy to be Filipino.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

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

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.