Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.

I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.

I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.