I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

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