Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want

Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

I was so ashamed of who I was.