Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

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.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.