I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.