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.

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.

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.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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 my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.