A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Self-confidence comes with self-awareness.

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.