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

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.

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.

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

Courage is the antidote to danger.

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

I'm gonna live till I die.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.