Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.