I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.

Success is best when its shared

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.