But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

Code writers, they are my idols.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.