We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

I kiss people with my soul. I don't kiss them with my mouth.

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

If you can answer the question of why you’re doing it, it’s the right thing to do.