Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.