When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother.

I'd prefer 1,000 followers, friends, and fans that actually meant something, rather than 10 million that weren't engaged.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself.