I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.