The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

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

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.