My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

People want you to fail.

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.