I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!

We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.

What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

A universal sound is about having everybody be able to relate to it whether you're in New York, LA, London or Australia. You have to be able to universally be brought back to a place where they can relate to you as an artist.