I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.

Prior to being a Canadian, I'm also Middle Eastern.

Would the fish have ever been caught if it had kept it’s mouth shut?

If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.

Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.

What matters more? What you said you'd do, what you hoped to do, or what you did?