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

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know? Not be afraid of something that we don't know. ... It's unfortunate that things take a while to progress like this, but it was a great, great victory for equality. I'm proud New York has the balls to stand up for what's right.

Nobody dressed like my dad. When he worked at the bank, he looked like Richard Gere in Gigolo. And he would do it all the night before, laying out the suit he'd wear the next day. Even on weekends, if he had to go into the office, he'd wear a trouser pant with a V-neck sweater and tie. And I was like, I want to dress like that! He was just so cool.