I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.