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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.