I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.

Fear is a healthy part of success.

I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.