You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.