When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

I'm always thinking about that young girl or young boy who doesn't quite know if their music, their messaging, their imaging, their voice is going to pop, if people are going to understand them. So I represent the other and those who feel like they don't even want to be normal. They embrace the things that make them unique.