We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

People tell me all the time that my songs help them express things to loved ones that they may not be able to say themselves.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.