Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

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.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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.

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.